I wonder if PCs are getting fast enough to do everything that the opposite can happen. Older hardware and free software is as good or better than proprietary with new software. So, even with subsidy, they can’t turn the screw. The problem with mobile is the lack of a competitor, and the duopoly.
Even Microsoft could not break it. If Linux mobile can port over all android apps seamlessly or easily for devs, with lower fees, then it has a chance. Microsoft paid devs to put their apps on the windows mobile store but even that wasn’t enough.
Similar to windows, the more they turn the screws, the more people want to leave. There is a boiled frog effect but eventually lots of the frogs die in that analogy, turning off the cash spigot.
I had a Windows Phone, and almost all apps in their app store cost money. And were often of uselessly bad quality anyway. People didn’t want to risk it paying even 7€ for an app that will end up being crap.
I didn’t, but a friend did and loved it. I’ve heard the os was great. I’m not upset it died. Competition is good, but I don’t think Microsoft would have been good competition. I just wish someone else had taken the mantle.
Android started out great. It has jest become perverted into a tracker with less freedom.
I wonder if PCs are getting fast enough to do everything that the opposite can happen. Older hardware and free software is as good or better than proprietary with new software. So, even with subsidy, they can’t turn the screw. The problem with mobile is the lack of a competitor, and the duopoly.
Even Microsoft could not break it. If Linux mobile can port over all android apps seamlessly or easily for devs, with lower fees, then it has a chance. Microsoft paid devs to put their apps on the windows mobile store but even that wasn’t enough.
Similar to windows, the more they turn the screws, the more people want to leave. There is a boiled frog effect but eventually lots of the frogs die in that analogy, turning off the cash spigot.
I had a Windows Phone, and almost all apps in their app store cost money. And were often of uselessly bad quality anyway. People didn’t want to risk it paying even 7€ for an app that will end up being crap.
I didn’t, but a friend did and loved it. I’ve heard the os was great. I’m not upset it died. Competition is good, but I don’t think Microsoft would have been good competition. I just wish someone else had taken the mantle.
Android started out great. It has jest become perverted into a tracker with less freedom.