Android turns 10, powers 88% of the smartphones today
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actually samsung is second worthiest tech company after apple ... they are not that small
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- 24 Sep 2018
Best Nexus design ever -
Nexus One
Galaxy Nexus
Nexus 5
Best iPhone design ever -
iPhone 5s/SE
iPhone 4/4s
iPhone 2G
Google has never really excelled in design but not all iPhones were beautiful to me. I personally don't like the X-series design. Next year we could have the first Pixel phone entirely designed by Google. Another year where Google becomes a full-fledged OEM for their Pixel phones.
Can't wait for Pixel 4 with Android Quiche. Some say quiche isn't a sweet dessert. A pie isn't always sweet either. It's going to be called Quiche. The only one I didn't get right was Nougat. The rest were easy to predict including Pie which I predicted back in 2014.
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Anonymous, 24 Sep 2018Huaweis new chipset is supposed to be as fast as apples a12You believe a company like huawei? I believe they said the same thing with 970 and we all saw how that turned out.
I don’t even need to talk about how they cheated 3dmark graphics benchmark
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Anonymous, 24 Sep 2018Gingerbread was great, ran well on slow chipsets even with ... moreHuaweis new chipset is supposed to be as fast as apples a12
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Love the Community, 24 Sep 2018It maybe 88% now but let's wonder why Samsung isn't a Trill... morewell...no one said it was 88% Samsung phones
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AnonD-632062, 24 Sep 2018I remember the T-mobile G1 and the HTC Dream too. It's s... moreUntil HTC kind of brought the jack back on U12 Life recently which was missing since U11 / U11 Life. Hope to see HTC pull itself up on U13 with the 3.5mm jack as STANDARD.
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- 24 Sep 2018
i remember in this time blackberry was the smarthpone most sold in the world any baty imagine the future the android
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- 24 Sep 2018
The first thing I ever do on any smartphone is change the homescreen and speed up the animations in Developers Option. Nova is usually one of the first one I download. That's why I could never be swayed by Apple no matter smooth or faster it is.
On my homescreen for my Essential, I'm using a blank icons pack. It only shows the names of the apps. Helps show my wallpaper better if the icons are blank. I get why people love iPhone. I get all that. iMessages is convenient to have. Better optimization, ages better, aftermarket support, yadda yadda.
I still could never truly use iPhone as a daily driver unless I jailbroke it. And even then, that's a hassle once another update arrives which eliminates it. Google isn't perfect by any means. They spy on us hundreds of times per day. But I can't live without Search, YouTube, GMaps, Gmail, Photos, etc. Even with the ads they make their money from, I use them.
Google's services are second to none. Imagine if Google eliminated them on iPhones and other Android OEM devices and you can only use them on Pixels EXCLUSIVELY? Pixels would sell in the 100M easily every year. I don't understand why Google wants to play nice to everyone. Be as snobby and greedy as Apple, and they win. Samsung would be scrambling pushing Tizen harder.
Services = Google
Hardware = Samsung
Software/ecosystem = Apple
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- 24 Sep 2018
Kangal, 24 Sep 2018Honestly, I've been doing some thinking and I don't think i... moreIts funny you used the word unrealistic in the unrealistic places, whats really unrealistic is the prices you quote "Sold for", they are like 100 to 150% above the achievable prices in europe. The only way to upgrade often for a low average monthly cost is to go for iPhones and even then it will cost more than the numbers you dreamed up.
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Gingerbread was great, ran well on slow chipsets even with 256MB RAM. Then ICS came and all phones bogged down and people started looking for a way out at the same time that Apple started working on some really powerful chipsets that became the gold standard in performance, that meant Android was already done for and as we now know android has never been able to keep up but has been steadily falling behind, even 12 core chipsets hasnt done anything for Android performance, fans keep screaming for 8 and 12GB RAM but fact is that 4GB and 6GB has done nothing for Android performance and neither will 12 or 16. Sure some make good androids in the midrange but in upper midrange and high end apple enjoys a complete domination in the performance race.
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- 24 Sep 2018
Android is brilliant. In the beginning, it was laggy and ugly, but over the years it has shaped up into the best mobile OS available. There are some areas that need reorganization, but otherwise it's a silky smooth OS with freedom to personalize it however we want, something that iOS users will never know.
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- 24 Sep 2018
I can predict that In 2022, Android Os is going to be renamed and they will going to start from the beginning like version 1.0 with some design changes and Artificial Intelligence. Because now there is very less options to upgrade the OS just like Pie 9.0 is not a huge improvement. We have everything what we need. So they are going to renamed the brand and change the bottle.
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- 24 Sep 2018
It maybe 88% now but let's wonder why Samsung isn't a Trillionaire company yet.
It's because the 88% is fragmented into companies like Samsung, HMD Nokia, Xiaomi, Huawei, LG, Sony, etc. So many choices that 6 billion people won't make one company like Samsung to be a Trillionaire company like Apple.
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- 24 Sep 2018
iPhone started with 1 home button and now have 1 swipe bar. Android started out with 6 button and now have 1 swipe bar and 1 back button. I wonder which OS copied the other
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Anonymous, 24 Sep 2018Ya 88% but how much percentage with latest version of andro... moreLatest isn't the greatest, i can confirm that with having run 4.4.4 with my i9300 when 5.1.1 builds were stable and the same goes for my redmi note 3(sd) where AOSPex with 7.1.2 and August security patch has more features, privacy and security than the 8.1 builds of the rom. Also i have recently started using a Nokia 7plus, but i forgot that nokia is a control junkie and has a locked bootloader.
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Kingslayer, 24 Sep 2018Get an iPhone XS then. The Snapdragon 835 that will powe... moreYou don't love android if you don't run a custom rom on your phone. Either that or you made the mistake of buying a phone with a closed bootloader.
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- 24 Sep 2018
Happy B-Day to better lot more friendly stable OS which makes happy 88% of planed.
Hey little greeny fella chew more from apple :-)
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Anonymous, 24 Sep 2018Ya 88% but how much percentage with latest version of andro... moreJust think about the number of users who now had access to fast mobile internet because of Android .. any other OS might never come close to that number ever .. for me that's Android biggest achievement from its existence.
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AnonD-632062, 24 Sep 2018I remember the T-mobile G1 and the HTC Dream too.
It's s... moreWell Apple removed jack long time ago and nothing bad happened,
Still zillions of folks week before the opening sales of new iphones having tents or waiting and standing in huge fronts to get newest latest phone.
Some people are really clumsy.