> Google is shunted out of the Microsoft eco-system

We'll see about this one. Last I checked, half of Microsoft's own apps couldn't run on Android if Play Services was disabled.

Microsoft brought the office suite to Amazon's app store pretty recently, when Amazon launched their latest 10 inch tablet with a keyboard attachment.

That's good to know. One of the things that pushed me completely off Android was discovering how few even Microsoft apps I could use without Play Services' malware being installed as well.

And it's very likely Google will find ways to retaliate against Microsoft for working with the Amazon Appstore here. They are pretty aggressive against forks. Honestly, I would suspect the next Duo won't be able to run Play Services, because Microsoft dared to work with a competing Android app store.

Wouldn't that Duo2 then be the perfect point for Kindle and Surface to join forces?

Just speculating - I know nothing about Android support at Microsoft.

Plus it counters Apple, which recently made iOS apps available on macOS.

Seems like all the major OS are betting that mobile is going to be the focus of future native app development and don't want desktop users to miss out.

I don't think it says quite that much rather they've given up on the idea of a universal native app platform being realistic.

Apple being vertically integrated with its own ecosystem versus third parties integrating it on non native CPU platform sounds like a very different level of integrity.

No one can match the level of integration Apple had made on Windows and Android platform.

We'll see what kind of limitations and bugs to show up.

Windows runs on ARM too, just that non-Apple ARM chips aren't as competitive in terms of pure performance.

This could be good for competition, but it's hard to see it as being about innovation.

Same as Microsoft copying Chrome and calling it Edge, users have another browser, now with MS telemetry etc. instead of Google. Good for user choice but hardly innovation.

Firefox user here. If I had to choose between MS and Google telemetry, which I don't, I would choose MS any day.

Ok, great, so now there is one more option that addresses your preference) but it still isn't really innovation.

(I don't really follow how your comment related to the issue.)

> Google is shunted out of the Microsoft eco-system

iOS is 54.33% of all tablets, Android is 45.57%. Microsoft, Amazon, and everyone else combined account for 0.1%

It doesn't seem like an ecosystem Google has the time to worry about.

I wonder if they are counting Surface tablets in those numbers. I don't think they sell very many, but 0.1% seems too low.

I expect Amazon would be included under Android in those numbers.

54% of all tablets in USA maybe? It's more like 5.4% of all tablets in reality

Worldwide. In the US it is slightly higher. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/tablet/worldwide

That's the market share, not the number of tablets

What is number of tablets? The total number of shipped Tablet? Why would it matter if those tablet are not in use? Which is what the stats from Stats-counter are showing.

Market share is how much money you make. So for example if apple sells 1M ipads for $500 and android tablets cost $50, at 45.57% it would mean there are 9M android tablets sold. Which makes the proportions more like 11% ipad / 89% android.

Wrong kind of market share. Statscounter is based on unique devices seen across a few million websites, not sales.