Re:Asian shops shun Huawei phone trade-ins on Google suspens...
by close04 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @11:49AM
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>> I can't seem to wrap my head around people blaming [Comcast] for building [services] that other people can't improve on
Or that again but replace with Microsoft and IE6 (in its heyday) and you'll realize what that "can't improve on" actually means.
Other OSes can't compete because they lack the push to critical mass needed to build a solid app ecosystem, not because they are inherently inferior. It's a vicious circle where you need apps to get big and need to be big to get apps. If on top of that Google piles on the requirement that any manufacturer is either with or against Google, so they have to swear off any other OS in order to have access to Google services, you get some really insurmountable odds.
Or that again but replace with Microsoft and IE6 (in its heyday) and you'll realize what that "can't improve on" actually means.
Other OSes can't compete because they lack the push to critical mass needed to build a solid app ecosystem, not because they are inherently inferior. It's a vicious circle where you need apps to get big and need to be big to get apps. If on top of that Google piles on the requirement that any manufacturer is either with or against Google, so they have to swear off any other OS in order to have access to Google services, you get some really insurmountable odds.