Re:HTC’s Answer To iCloud: A New Deal With Dropbox
by Danieru on Sunday February 26, 2012 @10:47PM
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Honestly I suspect Google is trying to grow a third party ecosystem.
By that I mean they leave obvious problems half solved or unsolved so that someone else can come along and do a really good job of it.
Cyanogen, GetJar, Dropbox, Opera, alt home screens, etc. By doing a 40% job Google leaves easy victories for third parties.
I expect the 'end game' is a better OS with a healthy ecosystem and is not dependent on Google.
Remember Google got into mobile to protect their ad market. A healthy competitive OS ecosystem would do this all without massive long-term engineering effort. Why build an OS and ecosystem if all you have to build is the OS?
By that I mean they leave obvious problems half solved or unsolved so that someone else can come along and do a really good job of it.
Cyanogen, GetJar, Dropbox, Opera, alt home screens, etc. By doing a 40% job Google leaves easy victories for third parties.
I expect the 'end game' is a better OS with a healthy ecosystem and is not dependent on Google.
Remember Google got into mobile to protect their ad market. A healthy competitive OS ecosystem would do this all without massive long-term engineering effort. Why build an OS and ecosystem if all you have to build is the OS?