So at the moment Apple hold the 1st place in mobile OS marketshare, I feel the unfortunate thing that will happen as marketshare drops Google will slowly move to supporting projects other than android, and eventually drop support entirely and focus on making better iOS apps, Device makers will start making their own operating systems with tighter locked down appstores in order compete with iOS, we already see this with Amazon planning to switch to a linux based OS in future fire devices.
I think the stat i looked at was sales
IIRC Apple only is 1st in sales revenue and sold devices of a single sku. All Android phones combined have a far bigger share by volume.
Which makes sense, since iPhones are on average incredibly expensive, especially for many countries where they have to be imported.
fyi: it’s SKU, not “skew”.
Oh thanks, I didn’t know it’s an abbreviation.
Do you mean are they going to drop the second most profitable OS in the entire world to focus on making apps for their main competitor? No, probably not.
A quick cursory search shows that Google makes billions of dollars annually off of Android software. Just because they’re in the number two spot doesn’t mean they’re not making an obscene amount of money
Android is actually THE biggest mobile operating system, with Apple’s iOS being in second.source
Thus, Android most likely is the most profitable mobile os out there. They’re not stupid enough to stop supporting it. However, I am worried about AOSP’s future in the long term, what with tech giants being tech giants.
Android is the most popular OS even when you include desktops, etc
And google makes billions off of apple software and searches too.
Google play makes 30% of all transactions on Android. It’s a money printing machine. It’s not going anywhere
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Legitimately, where did you see that Android isn’t profitable?
While posible, don’t forget about the pixel series, Google dipped into hardware. So at least for a good bit they are going to stay the course. Chromebooks are a cousin of android and is something I bet they have support contracts via education for years to come.
Though it’s Google so it’s posible
What connection do Chromebooks have to Android? I thought ChromiumOS was based on Gentoo Linux.
A bit of the selling point for the chromebooks is that it can run a lot of stuff from the playstore. Why called it a cousin.
Ah, I didn’t know that - thanks
Google are updating their Chromebooks to run Android
OS no! But knowing Google I do worry about pixels, which I prefer as my daily driver.
