"Android is imploding because the smallest android phone makers left the market" I'm not buying it.
Samsung is the biggest player in the market and selling more androids than iphones with comparable price (and profit). if apple can live in the smartphone market (and i guess the writer of the article thinks that) then Samsung can to (and a few other smaller manufacturers)
Android is imploding, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it
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Re: Android is imploding, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it
#12Click bait. I think Android is doing fine, Google seems to be on a great path with N and a more solid OS to use daily than my iOS device currently (but I'm sure apple has some tricks coming) Also, they didn't downplay tablet features in N, they added stuff like split screen which is a HUGE improvement. Ahh modern journalism. You'll never believe what he typed! Click the headline to find out... ;)
> [...] they added stuff like split screen which is a HUGE improvement. A great step to catch up with desktops from two decades ago. Good job, Google!
Android is first to have that feature as an official feature
however, Samsung had that feature in her phones since the note 2/3 i believe.
Re: Android is imploding, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it
#13Eh, OK, I'll be the contrarian here and side with the article. The headline is definitely clickbaity however the article, while devoid of strong evidence is basically true. Nexus phones are supposed to be the gold standard of android, and yet, I've never been satisfied with any Nexus device (I've had 3x HTC G1s, 1x Nexus one, 2x Nexus S, 2x Galaxy Nexus, 4x Nexus 4, 4x Nexus 5, 2x Nexus 6, and no 6P so far) due to ba…
Name Brands are how you have good margins on dish soap. In the Pre iPhone days I found Samsung phones a cut above the rest. Unfortunately, much like home printers people are willing to put up with junk in the search for low prices and high DPI.
Hopefully, in 10-20 years we will start seeing new brand names again as the hardware will be more or less indistinguishable.
Re: Android is imploding, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it
#14Eh, OK, I'll be the contrarian here and side with the article. The headline is definitely clickbaity however the article, while devoid of strong evidence is basically true. Nexus phones are supposed to be the gold standard of android, and yet, I've never been satisfied with any Nexus device (I've had 3x HTC G1s, 1x Nexus one, 2x Nexus S, 2x Galaxy Nexus, 4x Nexus 4, 4x Nexus 5, 2x Nexus 6, and no 6P so far) due to ba…
Kind of off-topic, but why have you had so many phones? In the last 6 years I've had 1x Galaxy Nexus, 1x HTC One M8, 1x iPhone 6, and 1x Galaxy S7.
Of all the phones, I liked the iPhone the least. The only thing it excelled in was compatibility with external devices, including my car, MacBook, etc.
Re: Android is imploding, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it
#15Eh, OK, I'll be the contrarian here and side with the article. The headline is definitely clickbaity however the article, while devoid of strong evidence is basically true. Nexus phones are supposed to be the gold standard of android, and yet, I've never been satisfied with any Nexus device (I've had 3x HTC G1s, 1x Nexus one, 2x Nexus S, 2x Galaxy Nexus, 4x Nexus 4, 4x Nexus 5, 2x Nexus 6, and no 6P so far) due to ba…
The Nexus 6P is probably the nicest phone I've ever used, and I have had the full gamut of mobile devices.
Articles decrying the death of Android are a dime a dozen and have been so for years, and I am convinced that every outlet has a few sitting in reserve to toss on the front page on a slow news day.
The mobile market is saturated, things ebb more than they flow right now, and some manufacturers will drop out of the game. I have yet to hear how this means that Android is in shambles.
Re: Android is imploding, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it
#16tl;dr
Mobile boom is slowing down, phone makers have to satisfy themselves with selling less phones, because humans aren't reproducing fast enough/don't buy a phone for another hand.
Re: Android is imploding, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it
#17Extremely biased, awfully researched post. If you look at his recent stories he is on an apple hype train. Nothing against apple, but this guy has blurred and biased judgment.
He has always been a shill. It used to be for Microsoft and now it is for Apple.
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#18Disagree. Argument is every vendor is racing to the bottom and vendors are getting squeezed out. Fine. Race-to-bottom didn't seem to hurt the PC industry. Plus, cheap Android phones in the developing world. (Agree that it's clickbait.)
Race to the bottom absolutely screwed the PC industry. It's why laptops stagnated so heavily for years.
I see no stagnation, there's a growing spectrum of models from the lowest cost chromebook to insanely powerful gaming and video production optimized units. There is a large midrange that is just good enough for use and little need for higher performance that seems stable with not much market pressure to shift away from the "i5" sweet spot.
Re: Android is imploding, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it
#19Click bait. I think Android is doing fine, Google seems to be on a great path with N and a more solid OS to use daily than my iOS device currently (but I'm sure apple has some tricks coming) Also, they didn't downplay tablet features in N, they added stuff like split screen which is a HUGE improvement. Ahh modern journalism. You'll never believe what he typed! Click the headline to find out... ;)
I'm singularly unimpressed with his coverage of LG, starting with:
"and LG show some of its execs the door after the 'flagship G5 smartphone failed to generate sales.'"
followed by "And it's not because Dell and LG didn't make good hardware."
"And while the LG G5 was expensive, and came with high-priced "friends" (the name LG gave to the modules that attached to the device), it was a flagship device from a company that had the courage to innovate."
But not, as it turns out, necessarily make reliable hardware, and definitely not servicing the problems well when they screw up, which is the true test here. I came that close to buying their previous flagship G4 a few months ago until I noticed that they'd screwed up a connector so the phones would go into a boot loop, and did not handle the repair situation well, like many companies like them.
If I was an LG higher up, beyond firing some executives, I'd be seriously considering either spending the $$$$$$$$ it will take to be world class as a stand alone vendor, shift to OEM mode like the Nexus 5X they build for Google I got instead (Project Fi's discount made that really compelling), or exiting the market altogether, you can't be good at everything.
Re: Android is imploding, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it
#20>customers don't really want innovation
>Android consumers want an iPhone or iPad that runs Android
>And what about the Android malware toxic hellste
After these kinds of statements how can anyone take this article seriously