Google also has its share of problems right now. OEMs have such razor-thin margins on Android devices they have little choice but to put their own flavor of OS on them to try to milk some sort of revenue out of consumers. Samsung keeps developing Tizen, in fact their Gear 2 watches will run it instead of Android. Kindles are essentially unrecognizable as Android. Other Android OEMs are having serious financial difficulty. Google itself was unable to make Motorola successful.
Long term, my bet's still on Microsoft.
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