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Android, The Future of the Phone OS

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Apple screwed up when they made the iPhone proprietary so that other companies could not it on their phones. Google then came along and made Android, which does much the same thing, but uses an open architecture so that others can develop for it. For this reason only, Apple will begin to fall to the side in the cell phone market. They did the same thing with computers. The Mac is a great computer, but only Apple can make it. That is a large reason why Windows has so much more of the market. If Apple had made its OS available on other platforms, it might have a larger share. Learn from your mistakes Apple!

Since Android is an open architecture, it has a lot of advantages and disadvantages. Lets look at the biggest pros and cons for an open phone OS. First, any manufacturer can make a phone that runs on Android. This is both good and bad. The reason for keeping things proprietary is that you have control and you know that it is all going to run properly. PCs often have problems. Windows cannot control every machine that uses its OS and therefore does not always run properly. On the plus side, there are more manufacturers and therefor more options. The same is true for Android. There are more phone choices for Android as Samsung and HTC fight for supremacy in the market and others, such as Motorola are making strong options as well.

Second, there are more software options. With an open architecture, more people can program for the phone without buying expensive programming suites. This means that more software is out there. The good of this is there are more options. The bad is that a lot of it is rubbish. For instance, I was looking for something that would tell me where the closest fee free atm was. I found something, but it was not very well laid out. I then downloaded a couple of other programs. The others were just different faces on the first program. No added functionality at all. What a waste. Some software does not run properly, or only runs on some phones. However, there is a lot of great software out there that runs properly (at least for me). As more programmers come on board and get to know the language, there will be even more software options. There will be more good software and more rubbish, just like in the Windows world.

With an open architecture, I am sure that Android will continue to grow stronger and stronger. Before we know it, iPhone will have just a small share of the market, like Apple does with computers. iPhone might even be the better phone with the better OS, but with a proprietary architecture fewer people with program for it and people will gravitate toward the phone system with the most choices.


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