So at the moment Apple hold the 1st place in mobile OS marketshare, I feel the unfortunate thing that will happen as marketshare drops Google will slowly move to supporting projects other than android, and eventually drop support entirely and focus on making better iOS apps, Device makers will start making their own operating systems with tighter locked down appstores in order compete with iOS, we already see this with Amazon planning to switch to a linux based OS in future fire devices.

  • @MrJameGumbEnglish
    40•26 days ago

    Do you mean are they going to drop the second most profitable OS in the entire world to focus on making apps for their main competitor? No, probably not.

    A quick cursory search shows that Google makes billions of dollars annually off of Android software. Just because they’re in the number two spot doesn’t mean they’re not making an obscene amount of money

    • @clubbEnglish
      15•25 days ago

      Android is actually THE biggest mobile operating system, with Apple’s iOS being in second.source

      Thus, Android most likely is the most profitable mobile os out there. They’re not stupid enough to stop supporting it. However, I am worried about AOSP’s future in the long term, what with tech giants being tech giants.

    • lemmyvoreEnglish
      6•25 days ago

      Also Android has strategic importance to Google. Their philosophy is to spread out and control their own platforms.

      Normally Google, since they offer a search engine, ad platform and online services, could have stuck to just renting servers and cloud.

      But they didn’t, they also created their own massive online storage platform, their own cloud platform, their own browser and browser engine, their own mobile platform, their own PC-based platform, their own wearable platform and so on.

      They will never give up Android, unless perhaps they will have something else already prepared to replace it. But it would be an insane undertaking to move everything over, but to mention having to drag consumers and manufacturers and app creators kicking and screaming every step of the way.