Comments on: Google vs. Apple – Control freak

By: Mobile Money Industry Insights – July 10, 2014 | Monitise MobileFI

Mobile Money Industry Insights – July 10, 2014 | Monitise MobileFI — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:22:47 +0000

[…] countries. One weakness of Android is its fragmentation, so it was interesting to see this Radio Free Mobile post proposing that Android functionality will increasingly move to GMS (Google Mobile Services), […]

By: Mobile Money Industry Insights – July 11, 2014 | Monitise MobileFI

Mobile Money Industry Insights – July 11, 2014 | Monitise MobileFI — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:19:42 +0000

By: tatilsever

tatilsever — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:30:14 +0000

>”Google needs to catch up with iOS and Windows Phone in terms of the user
> experience and this strategy will ensure it has the best chance of success.”
Even though I personally prefer the user experience of iOS and WP over Android, the market share numbers do not suggest Google is in need of any catch up. In any case, I doubt Google is making Android more propriatery to solve an actual problem that its actual users have. Instead, this move is primarily to solve Google’s potential problem of big OEMs using Google’s own OS to compete against Google in ad serving and data gathering.

By: @samanjj

@samanjj — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 05:21:08 +0000

Just curious why you would think MS and Yahoo have a stronger opportunity and potential in mobile ecosystems than apple?