Android held just 2.4% market share five years ago.

Way to go Google!I'm hoping to see the enterprise / business app providers start ditching Visual-C (and Java), and release their apps in native HTML 5. Microsoft has actually done a pretty good with their Javascript and HTML 5 based Office 365 suite. I need a HTML 5 version of Corel WordPerfect Suite, and an HTML 5 version of IBM iSeries Access ... I could ditch half the PC's in my enterprise for web clients running Android instead. Cutting out the Microsoft licenses to run those PCs on a network would be a HUGE savings.The other half of the enterprise runs on a bouquet of proprietary Windows apps that deal with various legal documents. Stuff like that took eons to get approved by the State not to mention millions of dollars. I'm sure an Android or web based app will come along sooner or later but I'm not holding my breath.

8.1 Van wrote:Android held just 2.4% market share five years ago."personal" use OR "BUSINESS" use?Makes a huge difference on the real "stats" and omitting BUSINESS use will most certainly fudge the end results.. Especially considering cell phones and Tablets make up a huge share of Android based devices and many folks have more than one device with Android..There are MANY things that Android cannot do that Windows can do..Try running any business software on "droid", how about HD video editing or running multiple "windows" or tasks, doesn't work on Android, does it?

I can edit 4k video easier on my cell phone than I can on my desktop... I paid $700 for the phone and $3500 for the desktop. The phone takes about 10 watts while editing 4k video, the desktop takes over 700 watts.The phone's ARM SoC is optimized for 4k video, cpu, gpu, storage all working together. The PC needs a $1000 cpu, a $1000 gpu and $1500 worth of drives to barely keep up with what the phone is doing. The PC uses brute force to convert the video into something it's outdated architecture can understand, and then when it's time to convert it back into a web format again, well, grab a few beers, it's gonna take a while.Yes, Android/ARM does not multitask well. Only one "task" is really held in the foreground at one time, and background apps really suffer. Gdetrailer, you and I are dinosaurs in this technology game. Modern apps have no need for client side multitasking. A web based environment keeps the multitasking on the server, stored in a database, managed by sessions. There are a few business apps out there that work very well on Android/Arm, through the cloud. The State of Michigan's emergency management app is beautiful. It's all HTML-5 based, no Java, no Flash, no "requires Internet Explorer 6." It multitasks great, allowing teams large and small to effectively communicate, sharing information and resources, using whatever device they have, as long as it has a modern browser.

Now let's break it down a bit further. Phone operating system or computer/laptop/tablet operating system ???? I suspect that theRE is a massive divergence here. Android owns the phones and Windows owns the computers.

Bill.Satellite wrote:Now let's break it down a bit further. Phone operating system or computer/laptop/tablet operating system ???? I suspect that theRE is a massive divergence here. Android owns the phones and Windows owns the computers.It's been in the news for years, supposedly nobody's buying computers anymore (well, consumers at least?) I imagine the numbers include Phones, Tablets, Chromebooks, Smart TVs, Smart Refrigerators, Networked video players (Roku, etc) and smart assistants like Alexa and Home

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Way to go Google!

I'm hoping to see the enterprise / business app providers start ditching Visual-C (and Java), and release their apps in native HTML 5. Microsoft has actually done a pretty good with their Javascript and HTML 5 based Office 365 suite. I need a HTML 5 version of Corel WordPerfect Suite, and an HTML 5 version of IBM iSeries Access ... I could ditch half the PC's in my enterprise for web clients running Android instead. Cutting out the Microsoft licenses to run those PCs on a network would be a HUGE savings.

The other half of the enterprise runs on a bouquet of proprietary Windows apps that deal with various legal documents. Stuff like that took eons to get approved by the State not to mention millions of dollars. I'm sure an Android or web based app will come along sooner or later but I'm not holding my breath.

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