If you care, I did not mean it as a pejorative. Rather, that focusing on his Android wants, he was missing the motivations of the owners of the platform (and most of the devices).

I promise you, if I did not believe it, I would not write it. While some of what I write may be speculative (and this is a “prediction”), there must be core truths, facts and data behind it.

So you steal Jon Stewart’s “psstt… over here on camera 3″ as ‘clever’, just as Samsung and Google have stolen everything they’ve done?
Appropriate.

Jerry, do you honestly believe Jon Steward invented the aside?

I can understand that, but I’ve found it’s usually more engaging to use simply “fan”.

u ,my friend,r a total idiot,,,u should stop blogging,,,anrdroid in a strategic bet

they can’t use forked android…as long as they are with google..

But he said “Full stop.” That means he’s right.

> Google refuses to break out costs/revenues for mobile.
So it may be that Google isn’t on some crazy tear to shaft their shareholders at all, that maybe one of the largest and most successful companies in the world might have at least a bit of a clue as to what they’re doing.

Thank you so much for saving me the time and effort needed to introduce this hack writer to reality. Well done sir.

To add to your wonderful points let me say, everything Google is now and will be in the years to come, revolves around their mobile efforts. A person would have to be brain dead to think Google would just throw that all away.

Hardware, aside, Google is all about information and the monetization of that information when and where people need it and would use it most. That is all mobile. Google Sheets, Docs, Slider, Gmail and Calendar, Books, and YouTube are all business and education applications that can be used anywhere and are tied to Android. Google Search, Google Now, Latitude, Google Maps, Etc. are all tools to feel hyper local information to Google for monetization and are tied to Android.

Google Plus, even though it is very new and growing my leaps and bounds is a massive (when compared to everyone but Facebook) social information funnel that includes everything listed above in a single user interface. It also includes a SMS replacement, which I use nonstop, a Phone Call replacement, in the form of Mobile Hangouts, which rings you phone like any other call, which I use nonstop, and automatic uploading of photos and images. More data tied to Android and mobile that Google can use to monetize. Google Plus also has another interesting this happening. It has become a massive haven for Google Fans to hangout and tough Google and their services and products. That is very important for Google and something more people tend to over look. If you want to sell a Google Product, there is no better place online to pitch it than the echo chamber that is Google+.

We have not even touched Google Wallet of Google Offers, which tightly integrate into Android and the entire Google ecosystem. In fact, Google Wallet is a prime example of why Google will never get rid of Android. Do some research on how many carriers have been blocking it from being on phones subsidized by them, and all because they are working on, and now released, ISIS.

The Mobile ecosystem that is the Google of today demands a Google controlled OS and you can expect to see them double down and Android every year for the foreseeable future. Or until the merges with Chrome and becomes a single, truly universal, OS that is capable of running on any hardware on the planet, no matter how small or large the need.

Success for whom? Maybe Samsung. Google hasn’t made shit on it.

Seriously, this “writer” needs to have some basic lesson in journalism. Even op-eds are actually filled with SOME facts, not fictions of what might happen, and plain misrepresentations of what did happen.

If Hall isn’t “writing,” what are you Android fanboys so mad at, his cave paintings?

“Google needed Android so that a phone like the iPhone didn’t gain the
majority. If a phone like the iPhone gained the majority, and Apple
decided to kick Google out as the default search, and mobile activity
eventually surpassed non-mobile activity, Google’s bread and butter
would vanish right before their eyes.”

Uh, wrong, Google made/makes more money on iPhones than any Android phone. iPhone users use way more data/surf more Web/buy more apps than Android users. The truth is, Apple wanted Google as a partner (which is why Schmidt sat on Apple’s board), but Google is the one who stabbed Apple in the back. So if/when Google search gets “kicked out” of iOS, it will be Google’s fault, not Apple’s.

Besides, what’s to stop Android phones like Samsung from dumping Android and using Tizen or Windows? Amazon and B&N already use a forked version that Google gets nothing from. The irony is, Google’s Android partners are Google’s real competitors.

“How is it that people still believe that the only type of “success” in the world is that which is profitable?”

LOL, this statement is so dumb, and so encapsulates the Android fanboy religion, it is laughable. Google is a publicly-held corporation with a legal duty to shareholders to make profits. That’s why Google exists.

How much has Google spent on Android? How much does Google earn on Android. Google *refuses* to tell us these basic investor concerns. How many ad clicks come via Android vs iOS? Google refuses to tell us. “Most used” only matters if you’re making money!

I’m pretty sure a 5 year old who knows nothing about smartphones would write an article that made a hell of a left more sense then this guy did when he wrote this “article” (and I use that term loosely).

By your logic, cockroaches are the most successful organism on earth.

holly cows, what are people smoking this days?

“Dafaq” did I just read? This must be one of the worse unwired articles I have read in all the time I’ve been following the site. And yes, I am not going to waste my time pointing the issues.

Again, you are incorrect. Full stop. You obviously have no clue how Android is managed or how the OHA is run. Google has the say over one thing: the Google Apps that run on Android. If Google wants, it can refuse to license GAps.apk to a manufacturer. In fact, Google refuses this to plenty of device-makers, such as the KiRF device makers over in China and South East Asia who are making knock-offs and using Android as the OS. Google can’t stop them from using the OS– there’s no license fee, and anyone can fork a new build of Android (ask Amazon)– so this insistence that Google has some kind of control is just showing everyone how little you actually understand the industry you’re trying to report on.

But please, by all means keep displaying your ignorance. At this point it just helps make all the other points I made for me. You’re in way over your head talking about things you haven’t the slightest understanding of. Not the technology. Not the technology business. Not business finance. Nothing at all but hollow, worthless hyperbole.

Yeah…I’m a Samsung fan, and even *I* don’t want that happening.

Sorry, but Samsung really sucks in software expertise. No way in hell am I supporting Samsung’s acquisition of Android!

The author obviously has absolutely no concept of the dynamics of the mobile market and the relationship between Google and its Android partners. Most worthless article I’ve read in a while.

Dear Brain S Hall, I don’t know how you can write commit such bigotry in the name of journalism and still call yourself an author. As a journalist, you are a shame. Voicing your own opinions and calling that a review is shameful.

Samsung is a very poor company at designing software, see their Kies, or their attempts at modifying Android as an OEM (their codebase is mired with a LOT of errors and issues, i came to know of it through a friend of mine working at samsung. In a word, Samsung Sucks At Software.) And you want to hand the second most used OS Platform to Samsung?

Are you kidding me?

Will this affect the Samsung Sunburst?