Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Google FINALLY Sees Apple As a Threat”.
From software to first party Hardware, this is from ours Technica a report from the information details changes Google, CEO, Sandra pichai is making across the company, including cuts to divisions focused on software for non-google devices and more resources for Google’s first party Hardware divisions. Why? Well, apparently, Google views apple is more of a threat than it has previously. Samsung is apparently in decline in many established markets and apple is topping U.S market share at greater than 50 percent and Global premium smartphone sales at 78 of the thousand dollar segment. Google is worrying too, that Regulators might shut down its agreement with apple to put Google search on iPhones. A loss of Google ads on iPhones would be apparently a major blow to Google’s revenue.
The effects may already be noticeable somewhere. Os watch users are reporting that assistant no longer works on their device. Oh wow genius, what the heck apparently Sam’s sung, OnePlus and xiaomi are being singled out as premium Android Partners, but many other manufacturers may not get the same attention. The discussion question here is: what effect will Google abandoning other Android Partners have in the long run? I would say not good ones, because one of the biggest perceived problems with Android is the lack of long-term software support and B? Is it wise for Google to switch to a more apple-like model if you’d asked me five years ago, six, seven years ago, in the Nexus days, I’d have said. Yes, it’s extremely wise for Google to go more vertically integrated. If you asked me today, I would say that sounds like a terrible idea: um.
They have proven time and time again that they just can’t handle it um for lack of a better way of putting that yeah yeah. I don’t know I, in my opinion, quality level of a lot of Google’s Hardware was best when they didn’t make it uh yikes like the Nexus devices. Sorry, I just kicked you um the Nexus devices. There you go um the Nexus devices were sweet. The pixel devices a little bit downhill, yeah um.
I don’t remember a Nexus device, not being good, though I mean they weren’t perfect. They were no, but they were from the buck. Yeah yeah.
They were really great for how cheap they were um. So if you go in not expecting them to be the absolute best thing on the market uh, but to very likely be the best thing in that price segment, they were really good um. I don’t know as a as a pixel person, I have been disappointed over the last few years, um more than a few years. I guess yeah, I’m not too surprised. I we’ve been hearing for quite a while about how Apple’s market share has been increasing, increasing increasing and you wonder who they’re taking that from it’s like? Well, probably, probably Windows phone, that’s for sure, yeah yeah, exactly .