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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Being use on multiple phone is one of android's advantages. People are more likely to find the phone to fit them 
Though it's also a downfall, because it mean the dev have to take in account multiple hardware. |
Not that much of a downfall.
Android has some compelling attractions. It's free and open source, so any manufacturer can get it and use it in a device without licensing or royalty issues. It provides a highly developed base from which to start, relieving the vendor of the need to code their own OS from scratch, or license someone else's. And it's modular, so vendors include the particular modules intended to support what they want their device to do. Just doing cellphone and not doing Wifi? Fine, don't include Wifi support in the build...
And you'll have customization issues regardless of what you start from.
The biggest issue for the vendor won't be
using Android - it will be differentiating their device from all of the
other devices running Android.
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Dennis