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Originally Posted by scottjl
personally i think if any OS is going to challenge the ipad for tablet domination it's going to be android. windows 7, while a vast improvement over previous versions, just has too much baggage and is too resource hungry. no one is going to build a tablet as thin, light, and with the battery life as an ipad running windows 7 desktop. android, sure. windows 7 mobile is a definite possibility though.
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I think Android is a pretty good OS, but I think its openness is its greatest risk. I worry tha a few years of development will lead to blooat and incompatible versions as Google and others try to incorporate more/better fesatures and cater for a wider range of devices and device types.
Google alo needs to decide how Android and Chrome (or whatever they eventually call their web-based OS) fit with each other (they don't actually have to fit in reality, but Google risks getting murdered by the 'tech' media who are only too happy to generate 'strategic fit' issues out of not much).
I think there's no question that, for the next 3 years, Androif will be the major portable OS rival to Apple. I only limit it to 3 years because who knows what might happen? Who though, 3 years ago, that Apple's iPhone OS would be setting the agenda for smartphone/tablet design, and that Nokia would be out of the game?
By the way, to forestall any fanboy ranting, I dodn't say that Apple's OS was the best or the greatest: I simply pointed out what's self-evident - the iPhone OS has set the model for current design in the portable OS market. Yes, RIM still have the major share, but they're following their existing OS model.