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Do You Think Android And Apple Will Ever Team Up?

It would be far more likely that BlackBerry stops trying to push its proprietary, email-centric (was probably cool in 1998 but email is not enough to sustain the company these days--these days everything is app-driven, who has the biggest app store wins) interface and adopts Android to keep itself afloat, than to expect Apple to cave and use an open-source OS.

Regarding BlackBerry, i am not sure how they can even claim it's a smartphone. there isn't a feature phone made that hasn't done everything BlackBerry can do and more (both have java-driven, cheesy apps/games, and both can do emails). i reactivated my old Curve a month ago and the App World (now upgraded to BlackBerry World) is about as empty as the old Cingular MEdia store.

As it stands now, Apple has two ways to win. 1) CHANGE SOMETHING!!! and 2) if Google's KLP ends up a failure somehow, and folks defect. right now everyone is getting very impatient waiting for Google to release the next version, but i fear the next version will be metro-interfaced like their Google Apps have become, which would bomb out, for sure.

But what is likely to happen is a redux of Apple when Jobs left the first time. remember the Newton? the Twentieth Anniversary Mac? the Pippin? yeah, neither do i lol. but this time he ain't coming back. and i doubt that Woz with his nixie-tube wristwatch can even save 'em now.

Uhm the metro interface is for Windows Phone, what Google app has this interface?
 
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As I see it, the only thing that could possibly make Android and iOS join forces is to defend themselves against a superior power. At this point, there’s no such power unless Blackberry or Microsoft eats a whole lot of spinach and develops a new industry standard. And when pigs fly out of my...
 
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The usual bro. Im out of work so my days/nights dont have any set times lol. What times it there? :beer:

China Standard Time now is 11.12AM, 7 hours ahead of British(Scottish) Summer Time. I was jet-lagged for a couple of days when I came back last month. Got nothing to do today, until this evening. School has broken up last week end of term, so I'm mainly doing evening work with one-to-one students, and a local private training school(English summer camp).

Anyway cheers... :beer: or gan bei!
 
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It ain't called metro but if you've seen Play Store and most Google Apps lately they do bear quite a remarkable similarity to Windows Phone Metro tiles, but with a more WebOS-centric look.

BlackBerry 10 can run SOME, but not all Android apps. But why not cut out the middle man and adopt full Android? Who even uses what passes for the native app store?
 
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It ain't called metro but if you've seen Play Store and most Google Apps lately they do bear quite a remarkable similarity to Windows Phone Metro tiles, but with a more WebOS-centric look.

BlackBerry 10 can run SOME, but not all Android apps. But why not cut out the middle man and adopt full Android? Who even uses what passes for the native app store?

Yea but how does that mean that Android will "bomb out for sure"?
 
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Yea but how does that mean that Android will "bomb out for sure"?

I'm fairly certain that since most Android users slam the "dumbed-down" look of iOS, and, to a greater extent, Windows 8 (laptops especially) I cannot see how Android doing the same would get any positive reaction if it pulled the same stunt.

I certainly don't like the idea of my Nexus 10 being upgraded to a Fisher-Price looking desktop with apps that cannot be themed some other way. What exactly is it with this kiddy metro fad lately? Haven't most folks been perfectly capable of using computers and mobile devices quite well for the last ten years? Or are more folks vision-impaired than I thought? I mean imagine a 10" screen overtaken with high-contrast, literally huge icons!
 
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I'm fairly certain that since most Android users slam the "dumbed-down" look of iOS, and, to a greater extent, Windows 8 (laptops especially) I cannot see how Android doing the same would get any positive reaction if it pulled the same stunt.

I certainly don't like the idea of my Nexus 10 being upgraded to a Fisher-Price looking desktop with apps that cannot be themed some other way. What exactly is it with this kiddy metro fad lately? Haven't most folks been perfectly capable of using computers and mobile devices quite well for the last ten years? Or are more folks vision-impaired than I thought? I mean imagine a 10" screen overtaken with high-contrast, literally huge icons!

So because YOU don't like it therefore it will bomb? Google has received a lot of praise for their new minimalistic look. It will not bomb. Minimalism is the new direction most websites etc are taking, customers respond well to it, and Android certainly isn't going to look cartoonish.
 
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Praise from whom?

Tech sites and user reviews from the play store, when ICS was released it was praised for its minimal look . I even see people giving suggestions on the Play Store for the developers to implement the holo theme for apps that don't have it. I've never seen any review that criticised google for this. There are a lot of criticisms for Windows Phone yet I haven't seen any reviews that criticised the look of the OS.
 
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I'm fairly certain that since most Android users slam the "dumbed-down" look of iOS, and, to a greater extent, Windows 8 (laptops especially) I cannot see how Android doing the same would get any positive reaction if it pulled the same stunt.

Don't you mean some geek or techy Android users might not like the idea of iOS.

TBH most people who buy phones are not geeks. They just buy and use them, making phone calls, do Facebook or WeChat, play Angry Birds or whatever. And a clean easy to use UI is probably perfectly fine for that. They're not going around changing themes or customising, or would even know what those terms might mean for that matter. The word "Android" just means a cute green robot, that's frequently used in marketing materials and advertising.

Many people don't even bother to read the instructions that comes with tech products, and if they can't easily work it out for themselves for what they want to do, they return them. Back in the day, few people actually bothered to set the clock on their VCRs....flashing "12:00" was a regular sight in living rooms.

When I was in the UK last month, a friend bought a Blackberry Playbook..god knows why? :thinking: He didn't have a clue how to use it. And I couldn't be bothered to work it out. Think he just bought it because it was on sale(discontinued), and seemed like a good idea at the time, an impulse buy. Told him to return it, and that he should probably buy an iPad or a Samsung Tab. Maybe people like this need the dumbed-down "Fisher Price" stuff?

Thing is, if one is not buying an iPhone, highly likely they're going to be buying an Android phone. Because that's all there is, especially around here. Apart from seeing the occasional Windows phone. Dumb candy-bar phones have all but dried-up now.
 
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I can easily see BB with Google but not Apple. But then again, Google just recently stopped allowing Gmail, Google Maps apps in BlackBerry World and all of BB's navigation and search apps point to Bing so who knows? Tried side-loading an older copy of Google Voice for Blackberry and it told me I had an "unsupported" device. Google so far is trying to ignore the fact RIM even exists.

I can see Android winning out and becoming a standard, just like in Star Trek, LCARS became the standard Federation operating system.
 
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I can see Android winning out and becoming a standard, just like in Star Trek, LCARS became the standard Federation operating system.

While LCARS is awesome, it does have big, multi-colored WP8-tiled buttons for its touch interface.

On the other hand, like Android, it has a rich, developed Voice Interface......

....That's it, someone needs to mod Google Now to use the TNG computer voice! :D
 
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Too bad Majel Barret Roddenberry is gone. I could easily see her doing the search voice. Oh well, at least I can enjoy saying "computer! Open Music Player" in Star Trek fashion. I just love trek gadgetry.

I can see Android evolving into LCARS but not if it tries going with the Easter pastels on white background theme it is pushing on us now. Honestly you'd think Google of all folks would know how much battery an AMOLED screen consumes displaying white pixels.
 
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