Tech giants mobilise for war
Is the Google V Microsoft thing just a hyped up news story to make it newsworthy or are we to see more "action" in the coming weeks/months.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10857574
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macuser:
Only reason Google makes apps for iOS as they have the user base that Google can't afford to miss out on...
mattwnz:macuser:
Only reason Google makes apps for iOS as they have the user base that Google can't afford to miss out on...
Can you see them making apps for samsungs new mobile platform? I can't. Even googles support for windows phones isn't good. I think google have turned, as they are now charging for services that were once free. But I guess the free services were never sustainable anyway in terms of a business model, it was to get people hooked to them.
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macuser: Sorry by ecosystem I wasn't more suggesting that a device needs to have an ecosystem around it, aka have apps people want to use. I don't see most people caring if iOS or Android long as they can get Instagram and Angry Birds.
Regarding Tizen, I think it's a bit like there being over 1.4 Billion Series 40 devices, although there was java Maps and Gmail apps made for S40.
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tdgeek: Well written TF.
To me, the question is, will app devs support extra and smaller OS's when they are meeting the early vast majority of the the market by writing for iOS, Android and Windows Phone?
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