Can Android fail? - ZDNet.nl

Summary: Can we get up one day and discover that Android does not exist anymore? One analyst believes that legal processes around security platform can be the tie belt.

When we think of operating systems for smartphones and tablets, we think primarily to Apple iOS and Google Android. It has become a two-horse race. But what would happen if one of those two horses stumble?

What would happen if Android fails?

Let’s start at the beginning: why Android may fail

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I turn now more than two decades along in the technology industry and am well aware of the goings-on in the world. Things come and go eventually to make room for newer stuff.

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But admittedly, I did not feel that Android is a technology with the potential to shrink. The increasing demand for smartphones and tablets – especially hardware that is cheaper than the iOS devices that Apple sells – Android would just have to anchor

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To Rob Enderle, an analyst at Enderle Group, some potential cracks in the armor of Android began to explain. More specifically, he talked about the potential legal impact of the vulnerability of the platform for safety.

“It is not difficult to imagine a situation where there is a major disaster occurs and Google, an operator or phone manufacturer is made partly because their unit was at the root of the disaster, responsible” Enderle writes in a column on TechNewsWorld.

He goes on to enumerate a list of examples of Android Security at slordigst. As a hack that aircraft did overheat and crash, and an app that can penetrate into other security systems, such as that of an aircraft.

according to Enderle not a big step towards a legal process against the platform. “Even the American Civil Liberties Uninon already taking action against the platform.” Enderle also points out that the U.S. Congress is working on a law that will attribute responsibility to companies that are hacked.

Another problem is Google’s fickleness when it comes to its projects. Outside Google search and advertise business, according to Enderle walk almost all Google products the risk of being. Suddenly deleted Just ask Reader users how they feel now.

Enderle has a point, but the problem with his legal argument is that it also applies to other operating systems. Okay, the popularity of Android makes it a suitable target. But eventually goes for the popularity of Windows, iOS and OS X. And if Windows Phone OS and BlaclBerry – or any other future platform – get some more traction, which will also be targets

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Security issues are not specific to Android. Each operating system is struggling with it. And if lawyers come along and is dangerous for everyone.

But what about the fear that Google would lose interest in Android? The company has in the past, many projects have turned their backs, just think Wave, Reader, Health and Desktop. I suspect that it is possible, but that would still not mean the end for Android, as it is an open source project. There are plenty of companies that want to take over the case. The loss of Google will certainly mean a blow, but Android will continue in all probability feet.

Personally, I think the biggest threat to security is not Android – Google may have enough money bay very against this problem if it wants to tackle security seriously – but the fragmentation that developers stifled. This Android will not kill (it is a problem that the platform already emerged to contend with since she has), but does mean that Android Apps chase limping on iOS apps. For someone operating platforms used, and used the same apps on both platforms, this is becoming a problem.

Apps are better on iOS than Android. That is a fact.

That being said, I think Android is chiseled. I’m not someone to bet, but I dare to put money on Android that within five years still present and will be in the hands of Google. Technology and years are like dog years, so it does not make much sense than to think beyond.

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