What I find interesting is the concept of non-Android
devices running
Android apps. RIM's Playbook had that
ability, and I bet their new phone,
running QNX and due out
the end of January will likely support Android apps as
well.
Thus they can leap frog over the problem that Win8 phone OS
is
faced
with - a new OS without enough apps.
Why I find that interesting is we
may be seeing Android
emerging as the dominant platform - platform in the sense
of
Middle Ware, that can serve and supplant the role Microsoft
played in the
early decades as a universal platform.
Thus, we come full circle. In the
early days when Java
threatened to be the new universal platform running on top
of Windows, Microsoft killed it with embrace, extend, and
extinguish strategy.
Earlier Novel tried to become middle
ware on Windows, and we know they met the
same fate.
However, Microsoft has no power over Android, as it doesn't
run on
Windows. They would have been smart to make the Win8
phones and the Surface run
Android apps, but I am sure they
wouldn't ever consider that, as their pride
would prevent
them from such blasphemous thoughts. Now their pride will
carry
them into oblivion, in due course. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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