Comments on: Google Android – Number update.

By: tatilsever

tatilsever — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:02:34 +0000

You might be correct, but it is also quite possible the users buying those devices intended them to be primarily voice, text, email and social networking gadgets with occasional web browsing. Giving them Android 4+ devices may not change their use pattern. I have played around with cheap 2.3 and pricey 4.x Android phones. The more up to date devices may be more responsive, but I doubt there will be a radical shift in how the users can or will take advantage of them.

The original iPhone and 3G were unusable by today’s standards, but their owners was quite active online despite to OS and hardware limitations. In addition to much faster CPU/GPU, bed rock UI capabilities such as copy and paste only appeared on 3GS. Third party apps had to wait another year before they were allowed to run, partially, in the background. Was the utilization patterns so poor back then for iPhone? If it did not jump so much then, why should it radically shift now for Android when the UI improvements are far less noticeable?

By: windsorr

windsorr — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:38:54 +0000

Its the fact that the user experience is so poor that users don’t tend to do much with the phone other than voice and text. this usage has virtually no value to Google and hence no monetisation. If these users start doing more with cheap devices like they may with Android 5.0 then Google may be able to monetise them much more effectively….

By: tatilsever

tatilsever — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:07:18 +0000

Which aspects of pre-4.0 Android prevents Google from monetizing the users of these handsets?