Nexus Smartphones: Who Wins, Who Loses if Google Launches Android 5.0 in ...
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The new program would also buttress the consistency of the Android experience as Google designs it. “Getting the major hardware makers to each bid at least one phone that’s running pure Android — that would be a win for Google,” Jack Plunkett,... ” While Android is the creation’s most popular smartphone operating system — running on more than 300 million phones since the platform’s debut in 2008, with more than 850,000 new Android phones and tablets purchased each day, according to Google’s... That’s fragmentation in a nutshell: A everyday percentage of new phones run the latest-greatest, while the rest of the ecosystem runs last year’s oh-so-unfashionable OS. So, by giving every fabricator a good amount of time to develop around Android 5. 0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, or ICS — is the first Android version designed to run on both phones and tablets. “With Google buying Motorola, working with all of the best hardware partners to develop a Nexus line of what’s on the leading edge makes more sense,” Charles Golvin, a movable industry analyst at Forrester, told Wired. While ICS launched in November 2011 on the Samsung-built Galaxy Nexus, it’s currently only competition on about 5 percent of Android phones. And, beyond that, simply launching a new OS in five phones (instead of one) immediately mitigates fragmentation a bit.
Source: Wired News