The end of Andriod?

[psxphill]

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/29/google-appears-ready-to-ditch-android-over-its-intellectual-property-issues

The chromecast is no indication that they are dropping android completely. It makes sense to not use java when you're building a fixed function device.
 
java makes sense when you want to run the same application across lots of different hardware & allow anyone to write applications as they run in a sandbox and can't do any damage.
 
Android is likely to stay on phones and tablets for a while, although eventually they might replace it with Chrome OS.
 
The Chromecast is pretty uninspiring though.

[psxphill]

What I find interesting is how people want to compare numbers of devices by using every android device against Apple devices when most of the android devices sold are just low end feature phone replacements which will most likely never get updated.

It is a valid comparison. It's Apple's fault that they don't have a product for each type of market.

[psxphill]

I havent seen anyone using any other than iPhone here.

Which is odd because the statistics I saw had Android ahead of iPhone. But you might live in an iPhone bubble, someone else might not see nothing but Android phones.