The State of Android.

The government financial aid January of this year I reviewed the state of Android manufacturers up to the next point. In January Samsung was the sole major Android OEM that was making some cash on Android phones. HTC had posted its primary quarterly profit decline in 24 months while Motorola continued its financial decline amidst regulatory approval of Google’s then-proposed, now-approved purchase in the manufacturer. How is the ecosystem doing nine months to the year? This is the year that Google was supposed to double down on tablets. That promise, made way back in March, was fulfilled in some ways by the Nexus 7. Instead of going face to face with Apple or preparing for Microsoft’s entry to the consumer tablet space with Surface, Google pointed their efforts at fighting back from the Kindle Fire. While the iPad has continued to dominate the market industry, the only other tablet to show any sizable adoption (aside from your TouchPad) has been the Kindle Hearth. Amazon claims (without any sales numbers) the Kindle Fire has 22% in the tablet market while Apple claims the iPad has 68% of the market industry, leaving 10% remaining for Nexus 7, TouchPad, Galaxy Tab, Xyboard, Flyer owners. While Google is expected to sell 8 million Nexus 7s by the end of the year (compared in order to around 5. 5 million Kindle Hearth sales), Amazon just launched any refreshed Kindle Fire and 2 Kindle Fire HD models. Whenever shoppers visit Amazon. com to obtain holiday shopping done, they won’t be presented with a Nexus 7, but any Kindle Fire HD. Hopefully Google should be able to push Nexus 7 sales, but even though they’re able to match Amazon’s sales they’ll do nothing to counter sales of Apple’s iPad. Add in the possible achievement of Microsoft’s Surface (or a number of other OEM’s Windows 8 offerings) and Apple’s expected entry to the 7-inch tablet space and Google will still be facing an uphill battle. While Amazon could possibly be getting Android into the hands and wrists of users, Google can’t be happy in which Amazon’s version of Android has been winning in the marketplace instead of theirs. The Nexus 7 hasn’t been Google’s only proceed to control their version of Android os. Google recently forced Acer to cancel the announcement of your device running Aliyun, a forked version of Android, because doing so would violate the terms in the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Members in the Open Handset Alliance have agreed to not ship non-compatible Android products, instead trying to build any unified, compatible Android ecosystem. To become clear, Acer can leave the OHA whenever you want to pursue Aliyun development, but if Acer really wants to keep shipping devices with use of Google’s apps and ecosystem then they can only ship devices using compatible versions of Android. Shortly before Samsung’s unsurprising loss to Apple within this year’s (maybe this decade’s) greatest mobile lawsuit, Motorola filed a whole new patent lawsuit against Apple. While Motorola and Google were originally scheduled to visit to court back in June, Judge Posner threw the way it is out because neither Motorola or maybe Apple could identify the damages they suffered from each other’s infraction. Motorola is arguing that all Apple’s devices (save the then unannounced iPhone 5) have dishonored some seven of Motorola’s patents. Even though Google has promised to solely use patents in defense of Android, this move seems unequivocally offensive in nature. So far Google has avoided case directly with Apple, but Google’s purchase of Motorola and subsequent filing against Apple opens the door to more direct litigation between your developers of the world’s top two mobile operating systems. Apparently Google has decided that the most effective way for them to defend Android in the court room is to litigate against Apple directly as opposed to using OEMs like HTC to fight its battles for doing this. While I would prefer to see cross-licensing agreements between Apple and Google, it seems as though these lawsuits will probably be going on for years. So what has really changed within the last nine months? Samsung is still the major Android OEM with HTC struggling maintain with sales and Motorola rereleasing last year’s phones. Meanwhile, lower collection Android OEMs like LG usually are releasing bricks. Amazon is still dominating any tablet market that Google has still did not enter successfully. The release in the Nexus 7, despite being finer quality than the refreshed Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD, appears to become too little, too late. Google is still struggling to regain control of the ecosystem while partners like HTC run to Microsoft eighteen, you are some sales in the YOU and Ice Cream Sandwich slowly but surely rolls out to more devices in the wake of Jellybean. Android remains a huge force in the unit marketplace, but it seems increasingly more likely that Samsung and Motorola (Google) is definitely the only real players in occasion. The mobile space is even now very young; as Merlin Mann is attracted to saying, every day someone comes into the world who hasn’t seen the Flintstones. AT&T and Verizon are just now reaching the stage where 50% of their customers possess smartphones; even fewer people possess tablets. Like every industry, however, not everyone can win. Android may end up being a major player in the particular tablet space, but it may end up being Amazon’s version of Android if Google doesn’t step up their game against the apple ipad tablet. Android is still a resounding success in mobile both in the united states and worldwide, but Google’s OEM’s can’t most succeed with Android. We can get the mobile space to carry on and shift and change over the following few years as some companies which were nothing become household names even though other once powerful companies fall by the wayside. Android still has plenty of room growing and improve and the required time to compete with Apple in the tablet space, but there are no guarantees that companies like HTC will still be a major player in the particular Android ecosystem or that Google will control Android on supplements.

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