Comment Android is now more a apps market than an OS (Score 1) 35
* Users want Android because there fell confident that this allow them to be at the same level as others users.
* Developers want Android because there fell confident that this allow them to spread there application to the maximum of users.
* Manufacturers want Android because users and developers want Android.
Now the drawback of this situation is that Google take too much control of Android. Most users and developers don't have any problem with that, but this is certainly not the case for many manufacturers that basically only have there brand name and distributors channels to compete, as the mid range hardware tend to normalize across all this industry.
Tizen is actually only an OS. The interesting experiment is to use Open Mobile’s ACL Technology to add the Android market on the Tizen OS. This is a long move. If successful, it can split the Android dominance into two parts: the Android apps market and the Android OS. Google will probably keep control of the Android OS, but there will be an increasing pressure to take some control of the Android apps market from Google.
It will be interesting to see how Google will react to "OpenMobile World Wide" in case there product start to gain a substantial market share. Will be open or evil ?