Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by Workaccount2 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:11PM (#31138035)

Thanks, but I feel I am reaching a point where I need my friend to be able to go to a physical location where they either fix it or clone his phone onto a new one that does work. I can't be google's advocate twisting my friend's arm to troubleshoot their phone anymore.

This is just a tiny sliver of my dissatisfaction too. I feel like the long time lover that sits down one night and after a lot of thinking gives pause with "Wait, why am I still in this relationship?"

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by kyrra on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:45PM (#31138913)

I think Google was in a different position than Apple in the case of messaging client. Apple has total control of the text message app on the iPhone, or Google does not. Google had to appease Samsung and likely some other cell phone makers to allow them to make their own RCS compatible app. Google took RCS and created universal profiles, and I think wants to get Apple on board with it so that there is a shared protocol between vendors.

Apple went to full proprietary stack that no one else can use, while Google went the more open protocol. Open protocols like this always tend to have a bit more headache, and we're seeing that with RCS. Especially when some of the players are cell service providers.

If the EU open protocol legislation ever pans out, I wonder how that would impact iMessage and RCS.

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by mrehler on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:48PM (#31138381)

Because those wonderful jingles made it so appealing! And keep you coming back for the "phone plan that can!"

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