KBG29 said:
With Googles recent announcement of the Pixel, the move to take full control of the Android platform is well under way. I have been screaming that this was comming for the last 5 years,...
... and the last 5 years you were wrong. You are probably also wrong the next 5 years if you keep on playing that broken record.
-I was absolutly right the last 5 years. HTC, Smasung, Sony, and every other Android based phone company is in serious trouble now that Pixel is here. Google is taking control of their platform, and are going to optimize Android to Pixel, and give Pixel many exclusive features not offered to the competition. As for the next 5, I may be wrong about Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, but everyone on Android will get hit hard by Pixel.
and have absolutly condemned Sony and Nintendo for their decision to not bring out phone versions of the Vita and 3DS. On the Sony side it is even more rediculous in the fact that they make phones and have thousands of patents...
... while Apple, Google, Samsung and a few others have tens of thousands mobile phone patents.
-Sony is equal in patents to Google, Apple, Samsung, or Microsoft as far as this goes. They have been in the Phone business longer than any of them, and they own all of Ericssons patents as well.
and yet abandoned Vita to instead loose billions on Android. Now the Xperia line once a brand that sold 40 million devices a year, has dropped to the point that they only expect to sell around 15 million this year. 15 million could have easily been achieved every year if they had continued to release Vita revisions,...
Easily!... Yeah, right!
-Yeah, right. A 5th gen 4G LTE Vita with 4GB of RAM, 128GB of built in Storage, a vibrant app Store, 12MP cameras front and back, NFC, Sony Pay, a finger print reader, L2 and R2 buttons, and SD expandable memory. If that was on the market today, they would have sold way more than 15 Million units. They could have easily had all of this if they would have put the 3 Billion dollars they lost on Xperia into Vita instead.
...and it would have made them billions as all users would be within their ecosystem.
Sony had its own mobile ecosystem: PS Mobile. Most third party developers didn't care to port their mobile apps and games to PSM and even Sony itself didn't support it and released Android and iOS apps instead.
-PlayStation Mobile was never supported for multiple reasons. First it was made for the Xperia Play, a device which Sony never wanted to make because they did not want Ericsson anywhere near the PlayStation brand. Second, PSM was not allowed to be installed on phones via Google Play. Third, Vita was never offered as a phone, so people never had any use for 3rd party apps on the device.
Xperia Play and PSM were not PlayStation Phone. They were bastard products from a relationship gone bad between Sony and Ericsson. They in no way shape or form, have any relevince to how well a PlayStation Phone could sell with real support.
With that said, now is the time to make the move.
NOW is the time to make their move? Wouldn't it be better if they had made their move before each iOS and Android had more than 1 billion active devices?
-Yes it would have been much smarter to start this back with Vita and 3DS, but they done F'ed that up. Now, we are at the perfect time with NX, PS4 Pro, and PSVR launching though. All of these devices are looking to change the way people look at PlayStation and Nintendo. They are trying to expand and show that they are the dominate game device, but they are also highly capable boxes capable of replacing your PC, Your Cable Box, and give you completely new experiences never seen before.
Pixel is going to be the out right dominate phone in Android land.
Sure, one of the most expensive Android devices will dominate "Android land". Samsung, Huawei and some other big Chinese manufacturers will roll over and die instead of offering competitive devices.
-Pixel will absolulty dominate Android, but the others won't roll over and die. Samsung will start to heavily promote Tizen phones, and Chinese manufactures will start to move to Chinese based open OS's. There will still be a hand full of low budget Android manufactures, but Google will own the flagship market.
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