Cross over Andriod

Andriod has been steadily gaining ground over the past year , 2009 when whole world was looking for something new to offer this came as life saver . There had been huge opening in the market where elitist were served by Apple's and features were done by Nokia and other Senzhen eco system . The whole middle tier guys who wanted all the features and much more in the lower price point were made to content with sloppy Nokia S60 based and SE UIQ based devices . No ecosystem and there is no opportunity to create value to developers or for users . Google studied and spent some right change from the kitty to buy android and create ecosystem around it .
They showed that devices can offer much more at lower price point and developer ecosytem can be developed even at this price range . Suddenly you can see the OS took off like person on steroid. Soon you have every tom dick and harry announcing the Andriod based phones , and hard balls like China guys took it branched and made there own flavour of it . Going by current trend Anrdoid is expected break dominance of Symbian OS and create space of it self .



but it is not surprising to see how this OS can be disruptive . Manufactures are taking to various devices , Toshiba just now announced Android powered laptop
This is serious challenge what Microsoft has faced since Linux made futile attempt to penetrate the Laptop market . The times have changed eco system is not as divided as when Linux tried to market bid . Google guys have learnt to keep the flock together and if they continue to roll out the version which they have been doing from early 2009 no doubt that they find on right side of many OEM's .

To offer serious threat to Apple OS this needs to make it to the living room to offer the digital lifestyle and to begin with TV's would be Nice place to your OS .

with TV's hooking themselves up to network to consume the Media from network then we have last frontiner of the Home entrainment broken and we can then expect that Andriod can mount serious challenge .

It will not be surpsring to see only two ecosystem flourish but is it good for consumer ??