The end of Andriod?

[itix]

Could the end be near in the not too far off future?

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

I think Android is there to stay.. but Android bugs on my Samsung S3 put me off from buying Android tablets and my next phone is going to be iPhone. Or perhaps Nokia if they have got something useful done. But not Android. It is buggy.

[itix]

@nicholas

You are right the hardware is good. I owned a Symbian Nokia phone before the iPhone and from a hardware standpoint it was nice. The joke is on Nokia now because they only support Windows Phone. What a way to ruin all hope of sales. They should offer Android as well so they can sell some units for a change.

I dont care what operating system my phone is running at. I just want to make phone calls and send text messages. Samsung S3 is quite good at that but it is unacceptable it reboots silently when it is passively waiting for incoming calls.

I dont know is it fault of Samsung or Android. Certainly I am not trying Samsung or Android anytime soon.

After Windows Phone fails just like the Kin phone and Zune maybe Nokia will wise up before they go out of business. Here's hoping.

If Windows Phone fails Nokia is dead. They dont have second chance. And I dont know if Android could rescue Nokia. In Europe everyone think Android = Samsung.

Nokia is probably gone for good. Dunno. Maybe Samsung too. Here in the states everyone is using iphone... I havent seen anyone using any other than iPhone here.

[itix]

I have a Samsung S3 too - although I've never experienced any bugs on the scale you are talking about. I wonder if your phone is actually faulty or perhaps
you have installed some crapware thats futzing with it.

I did install some software from Samsung App Store. I was also thinking that there could be a fault in hardware but bugs I found are reproducible. It just seem to be sensitive to certain touch screen actions and lockup and finally reboot (I assume a watchdog comes to rescue).

[itix]

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.

It could be. I am currently in the states and they love Apple like we Finns used to love Nokia.

[itix]

Root it then install ROM Manager from the Play Store, then use that to wipe the Samsung crap and install CM10.1 you won't regret it.

Cant do that. It is not strictly my own phone but paid by my employer. If I had a phone that I had paid and owned myself I probably would hack it