Glyn Moody over at the Linux Journal brings attention to the idea that Android's days are probably numbered and that it is time to consider viable exit strategies and file them for when they are needed later. Android is currently on over 2-billion devices around the world but the EU, goaded by Microsoft partners and proxies, has decided to fine Google 4.34 billion euros over Android for breaching EU antitrust rules weakening its usefulness. With an obvious replacement, Fuchsia, nearing completion at Google, and with the smartphone manufacturers also exploring alternative plans, such as Tizen and eelo, Android is starting to get alternatives. Just as the ages of CP/M, MS-DOS, and MS Windows have ended, so too will the current age of Android draw to a close. Eventually. Someday.
Previously on SN, Google Hopes to Replace Android with Fuschia[sic] in Five Years
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @03:31PM (2 children)
Eeloo [kerbalspaceprogram.com] and Tizer [tizer.co.uk]
You're welcome.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @04:38PM (1 child)
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @04:49PM
You're just jealous because the EU sees monopoly abuse as a failure of a market that needs correcting, rather than as a success story to be celebrated and spread to other markets.