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 bobthecimmerian on Wednesday October 10 2018, @12:18PM
I'm a dues-paying Free Software Foundation member. But you have some wishful thinking there. Windows is being replaced by Chromebooks and iPads in school. Windows use is being replaced by Samsung Galaxy S-whatevers and Pixels and iPhone Xs in homes. Windows Server is losing market share to Linux server like crazy and has been for over ten years. But Windows is still wildly popular on corporate and government computers, it's still sold on hundreds of millions of laptops per year, and it's still the most popular dedicated gaming platform. It's not the computing monopoly it was 15 years ago, but it's many decades from being genuinely dead. It doesn't matter how much I wish otherwise.