The evolution
Years ago, at the dawn of Android and iOS, there were large differences that separated them. These differences were not only in improved OS or the other, but rather each own features, or in the case of Android, also their hardware. Over time respective systems were maturing into what is now iOS day, especially after his final leap of maturity with version 8 and in the case of Android, a more gradual growth and today most promising, with Android L a few weeks to officially reach the first devices.
No progress so bestial as the mobile OS software is possible without the hardware has it together, and here owe much or most Android , who has been with his entourage of manufacturers have pushed the limits of manufacturing, improvements in each and every one of the technical, towards a frantic race to have the best or most powerful component .
To the user this war has not particularly benefited him because they looked like every six months the technology was almost obsolete yet been able to choose to enjoy a ultra-competitive market.
Google gradually positioned as one more manufacturer. It has its own hardware, but the Nexus or Google Play Edition are almost as if they were oblivious to their creators, devoid of any feature that applies the brand beyond the assembly line. It also has its own layer or interface, and any deployment of services.
Google’s Android, Android is Google
The news yesterday, which arose with the possibility that Google toughen conditions for devices with android, does, that the sum of all cash above, I considered if every time the way of innovation or differentiation will be narrower and its consequences that would flow if a panorama of equality, clones in which only the name but not the name.
If the software is becoming more like … there is only the hardware, but every year we check the differences are minimal. So a price war … where the most powerful, Samsung, Sony, LG (and stops counting) … be who could impose their law as parts manufacturers and financial muscle. price war is good as long as the smaller players can shake , but with the big boys in trouble and only concerned with their own existence, to whom they buy the cameras, displays and batteries? There are not many alternatives, beyond the niche with diplomatic protection of China with Xiaomi or rare avis that do not represent 3% of the real market.
I am one who always prefer a pure Google Android or Play / Nexus than any other layer (actually two factors that preference should be only the speed with which the system updates come and fluidity it without having to load it with RAM and services spend resources) But I do not represent all the extensive plurality of the market, and I appreciate that there are people with other tastes but do not share them. Many things that have been made through layers or proprietary apps by manufacturers, have ended copied by all because they were really good ideas.
The Future
not want to be ominous, but every time I see less difference between mobile and even operating systems. Even the larger sizes have been standardized, except Z3 Compact, nobody wants to lose the 4.7 / 5.5 inches.
Or will witness an stagnant innovations in mobile, where they will be and only mere commanders whole horde of wereables that we take up, or clearing this we need a great revolution is yet to come.
sure we each have in mind a picture of what may be the future of mobile. In comments you can write your own and see what might fit best and what is the least ugly to the user and the technology itself (though we can never disassociate the market because what is at stake is an industry that exists and make money )
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