Ah I see... Android will likely take an upward swing as more people on Earth enter the smartphone world.
But then what?
There are already three Android phones sold for every one iPhone... and Android's smartphone installed base is a similar amount more than the iPhone as well.
So what is Android gonna do with ~90% market share that they can't already do with ~70% market share?
I'm not doubting your numbers... they make perfect sense when you consider more of the under-developed world is getting online.
I'm just wondering what the results will be.
That’s a really really! good question. I (obviously) favor iOS but previous to 1.5 years ago I would have been better than ok if I ended up using an Android phone. Not now. It isn’t at all the interface or hardware options, it’s mainly because of what I now know about the privacy security issue. Good news, I ‘think’ Google will eventually get there (because of Apple, Linux, and others forcing them) but it’ll likely be a year or two or three. They’re majorly! dragging their feet while they figure out how to continue to get this insanely detailed advertisement sales metrics/info (best on the planet) without tracking users to a shocking degree. On that item, Facebook is arguably A LOT worse. Ultimately how this multi hundred billion industry was allowed to happen via highly detailed tracking of people? Imho It’s not right and needs to stop/users are aware and have privacy options.
The upside is Android is open source. I believe that makes a Microsoft circa 2000 ‘virtual monopoly’ that saw sometimes crap software forced onto users unlikely to happen with Android.
But Until there are indelible, rock solid privacy security options in the Android code, Google owning 90+% of the web search traffic and nearing 90% of the mobile os (counting Chromebooks, likely over 50% of every device OS), it should be concerning to anyone.
When a user can easily secure privacy, and anti predatory business law is enforced(on Google, Apple, any big business), it’s far less concerning to me about Google’s dominant position. But it’d be better for us consumers if there is at least one viable second option. iOS is that viable option. I suspect a more viable consolidated web search competitor will appear soon too. Regardless, on mobile OS and web searching Google is and will be the Giant in the room. Every other company will look upward at them on those two items — until such time some young upstart company comes along and completely disrupts how it’s done.
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