nope. android can be easily avoided. ios and wp are solid alternatives. why? because both of them have solid ecosystems associated with them.
Apple, microsoft and google are the three biggest consumer service providers in the market. no matter how hard you try, you are going to be associated with one of these three platforms.
and none of them are likely to support any of these new players in the market resulting in a major vacuum when it comes to apps and services.
i am basing my statement on the reality of what happened with ios 6 and iPhone 5 were launched. people suffered with apple maps. people delayed installation till google maps arrived.
if apple buys waze, it removes one of the most powerful (and free) third party mapping and navigation platform available to mobile users today.
we have had a couple of bada device owners on the forum. i know a few online. all of them have the same complaints. twitter did not launch an official app for bada. whatsapp did not have an app for bada. and so on.
i am just waiting to see the disaster blackberry 10 is going to be in the coming months. of course, all of this is my opinion. and i wish all the best to folks who get a device outside the big three i mentioned in this post.
and as for java and oracle. i am not sure if you read the news. oracle lost the lawsuit. google won. the threat from oracle is history. 80% of android manufacturers have signed a deal with microsoft over their patents. so threat from microsoft is gone too.
and of course... most of these new mobile operating systems... if any of them become relevant in the coming years, they are going to face the same legal threats from the likes of apple and microsoft and Nokia. it's not like they are going to be able to come up with a mobile platform that does not infringe on any of the patents owned by a rival company.
no one bothers to target these companies today because they are not relevant enough. i wonder if you read the news about research in motion paying royalty to nokia for patents?
Apple, microsoft and google are the three biggest consumer service providers in the market. no matter how hard you try, you are going to be associated with one of these three platforms.
and none of them are likely to support any of these new players in the market resulting in a major vacuum when it comes to apps and services.
i am basing my statement on the reality of what happened with ios 6 and iPhone 5 were launched. people suffered with apple maps. people delayed installation till google maps arrived.
if apple buys waze, it removes one of the most powerful (and free) third party mapping and navigation platform available to mobile users today.
we have had a couple of bada device owners on the forum. i know a few online. all of them have the same complaints. twitter did not launch an official app for bada. whatsapp did not have an app for bada. and so on.
i am just waiting to see the disaster blackberry 10 is going to be in the coming months. of course, all of this is my opinion. and i wish all the best to folks who get a device outside the big three i mentioned in this post.
and as for java and oracle. i am not sure if you read the news. oracle lost the lawsuit. google won. the threat from oracle is history. 80% of android manufacturers have signed a deal with microsoft over their patents. so threat from microsoft is gone too.
and of course... most of these new mobile operating systems... if any of them become relevant in the coming years, they are going to face the same legal threats from the likes of apple and microsoft and Nokia. it's not like they are going to be able to come up with a mobile platform that does not infringe on any of the patents owned by a rival company.
no one bothers to target these companies today because they are not relevant enough. i wonder if you read the news about research in motion paying royalty to nokia for patents?