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from the why-improve-when-you-can-reinvent? dept.
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) by MostCynical on Tuesday October 09 2018, @10:55PM
Apart from a Federal Government department back in the 1990's, I have yet to see any company in Australia running anything but Windows and MS Office on desktops.
Servers are Microsoft of some sort, or, rarely, some places have Cisco stuff running.
Microsoft isn't going away any time soon.
As for phones, ther may be some fragmentation, but people like Google Play Store and Apple's store.
F-droid is "too hard" for most people.
So whatever comes along will have to be compatible with Play Store, until a competitior comes along (don't hold your breath)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex