Expect the mudslinging to never end. While the contest is on between all mobile phone makers, and believe me the competition will stay (and we would want the competition to remain since it brings out the best in all these products for our consumption), the eternal throwing of pies against each other and the nonstop banter on which company provides the best phones with the most awesome features will continue to rage on. And like a pretty lady being wooed by handsome suitors trying to outdo each other to win our hearts, this skirmish is working to our advantage, unlike if the mobile scene is monopolized by just a single mobile phone provider.
And the latest tirade of technical invectives comes from no less than the departing head of Nokia’s smartphone department, Anssi Vanjoki. He says if Nokia were to adopt Google’s Android it would be like boys who “pee in their pants” for warmth in the winter. The analogy in this statement is based on the practice that peeing in the pants may relieve them from the cold for only a short period of time but eventually the cold will catch up again and bring its debilitating force unto them.
Mr. Vanjoki is figuratively pertaining to adopting Android as their operating system instead of developing their own, as in the cases of HTC, Samsung, and Motorola. And back then, there were only a few touch screen OS as options. Microsoft and Nokia started developing their own OS’s, Microsoft formerly trying to develop its much-publicized Windows Mobile 6.5 platform and in the end deserting the whole idea and going back to the drawing boards for a new one, and the Symbian OS for Nokia which is still in process of being tweaked and tested, but both OS are set to be launched this coming fall.
Android at that time offered a viable option back then to halt the ascent of Apple into complete monopoly of the smartphone world, and Google has been quite effective in doing just that (though not completely shutting Apple down), and as we speak Google is still infusing funds to continuously improve and upgrade Androids development to match or surpass the competition.
However, Nokia argues that using Android may not be the helping Nokia’s goal to be different form the rest since many phones use the Android OS. In effect, this scenario would mean lesser turnout of sales for them since other mobile phones would be offering the same features.
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