If Android just shut down...

[ktw]

which platform would you choose to take its place ? ios, windows mobile, BB OS, Bada, Symbian, Touchwiz...what ?

 

[Omar Days]

ios.

it'd be hard to take such a step down though

 

[Yeahha]

Probably WP maybe iOS and I don't think touchwiz is an OS

 

[AmneonX]

As hard as it would be to accept it, I would probably go with iOS, or maybe WP7. I haven't really gotten into either, but I think WP7 is ugly.

 

[Doit2it]

iOS. It's what I lusted for but never got (boo AT&T exclusivity (or maybe thanks!)) before the 2nd gen of Android hit the market. WP7 just looks too simple (=boring) to me. WebOS looked promissing. Too bad it died (or was killed) on the vine.

 

[Ngo93]

I'd head over to iOS, though I'd be severely depressed =P

 

[marc12868]

WP7. I would never go to that evil apple company... (sorry all you apple fanboys/ fangirls). And touchwiz isn't an os... It's Samsung's android overlay.

 

[jonmorris]

Is it weird to not really like iOS, yet be a major Apple (Mac) fan?

To me, and it may seem strange, I see that OS X and Android fit together better (UI excepted) than OS X and iOS.

OS X is simple and open (for now) so Android seems like something I'd expect a Mac user to embrace more than a locked-down and heavily controlled OS. But maybe that's just me.

 

[kct1975]

Humm...tough question....since I never really got the hang of Mac OS....and I am now sick of hearing all of the Apple fans crow about the iPhone, I think I would have to go with Win7 phone

 

[Kie]

Probably WP maybe iOS and I don't think touchwiz is an OS

Can you imagine a touchwiz OS?! *shudder* It'd have more flaws than the Burj Khalifa (and I mean that in every sense of the pun).

No way iOS would end up on anything other than Apple products. Samsung, HTC, LG and the other big players would just have a full migration with Windows Mobile OS...the horror.

 

[Yeahha]

Can you imagine a touchwiz OS?! *shudder* It'd have more flaws than the Burj Khalifa (and I mean that in every sense of the pun).

No way iOS would end up on anything other than Apple products. Samsung, HTC, LG and the other big players would just have a full migration with Windows Mobile OS...the horror.

Lol yeah I could...I think there were some dumb phones that were brew touchwized...maybe some windows phones too

 

[Logan47]

I'd give up and go back to DOS....or basic. Sad face indeed.

 

[marc12868]

Is it weird to not really like iOS, yet be a major Apple (Mac) fan?

To me, and it may seem strange, I see that OS X and Android fit together better (UI excepted) than OS X and iOS.

OS X is simple and open (for now) so Android seems like something I'd expect a Mac user to embrace more than a locked-down and heavily controlled OS. But maybe that's just me.

Well OS X is based of of unix... And linux is based off of unix and android is based off of linux so at the roots they are the same, so it only makes sense that they seem to fit together.

 

[huy_lonewolf]

My basic requirement for an OS is that it should have a file system and mass storage functionality. As far as I know, the 2 best mobile OSes that can satisfy this requirement are Android and Windows Mobile (the good old Windows Mobile 6.1, 6.5, not the iOS-copy WP7). So, if there was no Android, I will go back to my Samsung Omnia lol

 

[saptech]

I would goto the iPhone first...

 

[xmr405o]

IOS just because it has more apps.

 

[Caro332]

I think I would go for windows mobile...

 

[ktw]

Probably WP maybe iOS and I don't think touchwiz is an OS

about touchwiz

currently It's the launcher that Samsung uses on its devices but remember the Samsung jet or the star ?
back then (2008) It was the OS for these devices.

 

[ktw]

WP7. I would never go to that evil apple company... (sorry all you apple fanboys/ fangirls). And touchwiz isn't an os... It's Samsung's android overlay.

touchwiz was also the OS for the old devices from 2008 such as the jet and star.

 

[marc12868]

touchwiz was also the OS for the old devices from 2008 such as the jet and star.

TouchWiz is a touch interface developed by Samsung Electronics with partners, featuring a full touch user interface. It is sometimes incorrectly identified as an operating system. TouchWiz is used internally by Samsung for sophisticated feature phones and tablet computers, and is not available for licensing by external parties.

It's an overlay and always has been. It just runs on top of whatever OS the phone is running it's not actually an OS. Here's the wiki on it: TouchWiz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Edit: it looks like Samsung did have a proprietary OS called bada though which touchwiz ran over...

 

[Gmash]

WP I guess. At least they have more than one phone to choose from.

 

[ktw]

It's an overlay and always has been. It just runs on top of whatever OS the phone is running it's not actually an OS. Here's the wiki on it: TouchWiz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Edit: it looks like Samsung did have a proprietary OS called bada though which touchwiz ran over...

then what OS did the Samsung jet and the star run on ?

 

[marc12868]

then what OS did the Samsung jet and the star run on ?

bada with the touchwiz overlay.

 

[karandpr]

Probably Tizen or Meltemi or Meego .. Who knows . quite hypothetical IMO

 

[davidchsw]

WP7 because I would have a choice for hardware.