Seriousness though, I guess android O/S techies just got an extension to the shelf life of this skillset if we get into an out war on Android O/S stock versus Android-modified Kindle versus soon to be Android O/S FB phone + Google TV…
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flu, Have you thought about the possiblity of Moto-google also making a fork of Android for their own exclusive use? That would really make this landscape, well, weird ..[/quote]
The day they do that is the day all the other OEM switch to WP7/WP8. Why would OEM stick around and have to compete with Google themselves. Which is why MSFT is not creating their own phone or buy NOK. They have more than enough cash to do so if they wanted to. NOK fortune is actually starting to turn around. Albeit slowly. They finally regained the top smartphone position in Finnish. That’s not saying much as a whole, but that’s a good first start for them. I can see MSFT infuse more cash into NOK, to help them turn around if they need to, but I don’t see NOK being bought out anytime soon.
The only platform that FB can buy is either webOS or RIMM. WebOS is open sourced now, so they can totally hijack that if they wanted too. I don’t see how a 4th ecosystem can succeed, especially when they’re competing against 3 companies with very large war chest. GOOG and AAPL are entrenched and MSFT have potential from their PC user base and Windows 8, offering user a tighter integration.[/quote]
As much as I think of a FB/Rimm tieup. I don’t see it as a winning combo though… Rimm’s clientele and ecosystem is business communication/secure communications. Facebook’s need is social media, which to me is almost the complete opposite. That said, I think I will pick up a few shares in Rimm, just in case Rimm get’s bailed out… $11/share not that much…
i cant imagine folks wanting a fulltime facebook phone… So I think what possibly facebook can do is come up with a a way to run inside a main/host Android O/S, similar to the way parallels/virtual box works. That way, when it runs inside it’s own sandbox, people like me would be entertained using it without fear of permanently have a FB android/modified phone.
Given the choices, them deciding to use Android O/S as the baseline is the right move. Now comes the tricky part…It’s got to co-exist OEM android installed o/s… Sounds like a fun problem to be working on from an engineering standpoint…
