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.
