My view on Android

Android is an operationg system developed by Google, and based on linux kernel.

It sees phenonmenal growth since 2009, firstly from mobile phones, then to tablets.

The growth pattern is also very similar to linux.

Linux, is now 20 years old, and is still growing / evolving rapidly. It's very grass-root style movement, based on GPL open source concepts. There's lots of info on the internet, free apps on Google Market.

Yet many says that the tablet market is dominated by iPad from Apple, but it's still similar scenario as "Linux vs Microsoft".

Linux did not try to compete with Microsoft, and shows no interest on it.

Similar belief is in Android. They promote a FOSS ( Free open-sourced softwares ) ecosystem, that let everyone to participate / modify your device.

It's same concept that "If you cannot open it, you do not own it"

Android may not become the winner in tablet market / mobile phone market, but it won't die.

I went to 桑達 tablet market in ShenZhen, and found that more than 80% of tablets are using Android, no iPads, and just a few Windows 7 + Atom tablets. Sadly, many of these manufacturers break the GPL rules, and do not release their source code !!

The new products are coming out rapidly, and yet many 5 ~ 6 months old products are already on sale with huge discount. Cash is king there. So the biggest players of Android tablet are those "no-name" white box ShanZhaiJi(山寨機) tablet makers.

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