<story><title>The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/the-huawei-disaster-reveals-googles-iron-grip-on-android-b1ccee34504d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harryf</author><text>It’s possible that Google cutting off Huawei will actually backfire, because it makes having a viable alternative to Android a MUST HAVE instead of just NICE TO HAVE.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it’s possible to resurrect Blackberry 10 ( &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;BlackBerry_10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;BlackBerry_10&lt;/a&gt; ) for example, which seemed to be an impressive piece of engineering that got trampled by Blackberrys failing business. I played with a demo once that could run Android apps and was amazing at multi-tasking thanks to its microkernel architecture. Plus would be governed by Canadian export laws I guess. Perhaps I’m just daydreaming though.&lt;p&gt;Either way think it’s going to lead to more mobile OS competition again, which is a good thing</text></item><item><author>Roritharr</author><text>Google invested Billions into Android.&lt;p&gt;Samsung tried to hedge for this by building Tizen(Bada) and realized how much needed to be invested to get an Android competitor going, so they kept the development going, but focused for their Smartwatches, as this would have to be a &amp;quot;if the worst happens&amp;quot; plan, not something that could be a profitable venture.&lt;p&gt;LG has the Palm&amp;#x2F;HP borne WebOS for their TVs, i suspect with a similar idea at the back of their minds.&lt;p&gt;Everyone else? They&amp;#x27;re too small to realistically try to save their smartphone businesses when the green robot becomes their enemy.&lt;p&gt;Google bought this platform with every dollar invested over more than a decade, they didn&amp;#x27;t do this only so that Apple had a competitor, but so that THEY had control over mobile eyeballs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehonda</author><text>I have both an S9 and a BlackBerry Q10 on me every day. The BB10 OS, even though its now defunct, was designed in a way that it is FAR easier and more practical to use. I really, really hate the Android interface as a result.&lt;p&gt;1: BlackBerry hub is a lot nicer to view messages&lt;p&gt;2: Smart use of Bezel gestures makes it much easier to actually interact with the phone:&lt;p&gt;-If you want to access the hub while using an app, you take your thumb from the bottom of the screen and swipe up and to the right. The interface is very forgiving of where you swipe, you can do it without even looking, yet you wont accidentally do it either. If you don&amp;#x27;t want to fully enter the hub and just take a peak without leaving your app, just do a partial swipe.&lt;p&gt;-If you want to view all your running apps, you swipe up from the bottom of the screen to the middle of the screen, and voila , you get a tile arrangement of your running apps (easier to view than a Rolodex), as well as phone and camera access. And you are also less likely to lose track of what windows you have open. I find lots of peoples android phones have like 30 windows open - this is a fault of its interface.&lt;p&gt;-If you want to access your apps, swipe up from bottom bezel (shows running apps), and then swipe left, now you can view all your other apps.&lt;p&gt;-Every app is expected to have its settings menu accessible by swiping down from the top bezel.&lt;p&gt;There are no silly little cumbersome function buttons at the bottom like Android has (the back&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;apps buttons). Smart use of bezel gestures make this unnecessary.&lt;p&gt;Everything can be accessed easily in a simple, comfortable gesture with your thumb. As a result, it is a lot faster to use day in day out. And it is not as cluttered as Android.&lt;p&gt;I am sad the whole world chose Android. It&amp;#x27;s a crappy interface.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/the-huawei-disaster-reveals-googles-iron-grip-on-android-b1ccee34504d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harryf</author><text>It’s possible that Google cutting off Huawei will actually backfire, because it makes having a viable alternative to Android a MUST HAVE instead of just NICE TO HAVE.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it’s possible to resurrect Blackberry 10 ( &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;BlackBerry_10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;BlackBerry_10&lt;/a&gt; ) for example, which seemed to be an impressive piece of engineering that got trampled by Blackberrys failing business. I played with a demo once that could run Android apps and was amazing at multi-tasking thanks to its microkernel architecture. Plus would be governed by Canadian export laws I guess. Perhaps I’m just daydreaming though.&lt;p&gt;Either way think it’s going to lead to more mobile OS competition again, which is a good thing</text></item><item><author>Roritharr</author><text>Google invested Billions into Android.&lt;p&gt;Samsung tried to hedge for this by building Tizen(Bada) and realized how much needed to be invested to get an Android competitor going, so they kept the development going, but focused for their Smartwatches, as this would have to be a &amp;quot;if the worst happens&amp;quot; plan, not something that could be a profitable venture.&lt;p&gt;LG has the Palm&amp;#x2F;HP borne WebOS for their TVs, i suspect with a similar idea at the back of their minds.&lt;p&gt;Everyone else? They&amp;#x27;re too small to realistically try to save their smartphone businesses when the green robot becomes their enemy.&lt;p&gt;Google bought this platform with every dollar invested over more than a decade, they didn&amp;#x27;t do this only so that Apple had a competitor, but so that THEY had control over mobile eyeballs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOperator</author><text>&amp;gt;It’s possible that Google cutting off Huawei will actually backfire, because it makes having a viable alternative to Android a MUST HAVE instead of just NICE TO HAVE.&lt;p&gt;I got the impression that the United States forced their hand.</text></comment>