In fact, why does Google need to be in the mobile OS space at all?
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BlackBerry 10 was expected to be the mobile OS that would save its maker.
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Having a touchscreen doesn't mean that Google plans to integrate its mobile OS, Android, into the device.
Mayer: One of the advantages we have is no mobile OS. We can offer experiences on all platforms.
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Many of its competitors, with weaker tie-ins to the mobile OS, do not.
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Have you found that users of one type of mobile OS or device are more accepting of delays than others?
"Licensing a mobile OS is not the endgame, " UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter wrote in a note to investors last week.
Sure, the mobile OS lacks the app selection of its rivals, but maybe I didn't need them to begin with.
This is where the long-term viability of Windows as a mass market mobile OS will be tested in the coming summer.
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The ones that cross over more effectively and rapidly to their secondary mobile OS may well be the app market leaders circa 2015.
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If Android is not free, Apple, Google and Microsoft will dominate the smart phone OS. The mobile OS licenses alone could create another Microsoft!
If Samsung picked up webOS and optimized its mobile OS, it would be less dependent on Google going forward and could better challenge in Apple.
The only problem being that making a mobile OS is hard.
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Over the past several months, Research in Motion has gained a lot of attention for announcing multiple delays of its long-awaited mobile OS update, BlackBerry 10.
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With help from more than 60 partners, including Samsung, Android has become the top mobile OS used on smartphones sold in the U.S., according to comScore.
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This is pretty much what the Windows camp needs just to get a small chance of clawing its way to 10% mobile OS market share by 2013.
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On the other hand, it could be seen as a way to juke stats which have been used against Google's mobile OS by its competitors like Apple.
According to a recent survey of IT managers by Computerworld magazine, 45% of enterprises support 3 or more mobile OS platforms, while 21% support 4 or more .
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Who says Android is the most insecure mobile OS around?
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The speculation is over kids, mobile-review got themselves a copy of the next major release of the Windows Mobile OS and slapped up a review for all to see.
Codenamed " Crossbow, " the mobile OS is expected to hit sometime in the first half of 2007 under what can be assumed to be a Windows Mobile 6.0 moniker.
Android recently crossed the 50% global market share barrier in the mobile OS market helped by both its wide range of manufacturer-partners as well as its free and open source roots.
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The new app doesn't use Flash, given its absence on most up-to-date versions of Google's mobile OS, instead using HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) to deliver your weekly doses of Doctor Who.
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The biggest phone we can see of this baker's dozen of a lineup is the HTC Gold ( sound familiar?), due in November and loaded with Microsoft's mobile OS newcomer Windows Phone 7.
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And while a boutique mobile OS serving a few hundred million users might be enough for Microsoft, BlackBerry, or Jolla, the simple fact is that (server farms aside), Facebook is not a hardware company.
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Jony Ive, who was promoted to oversee both hardware and software, is reportedly shattering silos and pulling developers from the Mac OS X side of things to help keep the radically retooled mobile OS on-track.
Canonical hopes that future devices (read: arriving sometime in 2014) will not only run the new mobile OS, but will also boot the desktop variant of Ubuntu when docked to a keyboard, mouse and monitor.
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Apple controls the hardware and the mobile OS, and now with Passbook, it provides brand app developers the ability to link their products to a centralized and easy management of gift cards, coupons and tickets.
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Well, considering Android was built primarily around finger input, the stylus certainly adds a new (and rather unexpected) dimension to Google's mobile OS, which is why HTC's focused quite a bit on adding some pen-based applications.
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