Do You Think Android Will Ever Be Replaced With Another Operating System?

[CPUser]

Blackberry used to be one of the most popular operating systems for phones. Now, you barely ever here about them. Do you ever think Android Will be replaced with another operating system? What are your thoughts?

 

[Hadron]

Well, yes. Nothing lasts forever. It's less vulnerable than the Blackberry OS because it's not single vendor, but eventually something else will replace it or it will change to the point where only the name remains the same. But there's nothing imminent (iOS is limited to one vendor, Samsung's Tizen is a joke, Microsoft are pulling out for now, and niche platforms like Sailfish are just that).

For me personally the biggest risk is Google deciding to integrate their services too deeply with the OS, or evolving towards a more closed architecture. Either of these would be moving away from the idea of Android, and either woulld be enough to lose me.

 

[Deleted User]

I don't think we're going to lose Android anytime soon. As @Hadron says, it's not tied to one vendor, which is a big advantage. Plus apps are opened up for anyone to provide - another huge positive situation.
What I would like to see is Google providing a mainstream alternative on the desktop. Some sort of unification for mobile and desktop is I think a good thing to work towards, despite Ubuntu giving up on it. And of course a viable Linux alternative to Windows would be brilliant. I know they tried ChromeOS, but that wasn't really a general purpose system solution.

 

[Hadron]

I'm more sceptical of desktop android. Android is a Linux kernel plus a sandboxed java-based runtime environment (currently ART, originally dalvik). I wouldn't really be interested in that runtime environment on a computer, which means that I wouldn't have a use for desktop android.

 

[mikedt]

Well, yes. Nothing lasts forever. It's less vulnerable than the Blackberry OS because it's not single vendor, but eventually something else will replace it or it will change to the point where only the name remains the same. But there's nothing imminent (iOS is limited to one vendor, Samsung's Tizen is a joke, Microsoft are pulling out for now, and niche platforms like Sailfish are just that).

For me personally the biggest risk is Google deciding to integrate their services too deeply with the OS, or evolving towards a more closed architecture. Either of these would be moving away from the idea of Android, and either woulld be enough to lose me.

I can see one thing stopping that at the moment, something I'm very familiar with.

Spoiler

China ...world's largest Android market, and Google is banned of course.

 

[maykelbembibre]

Android has got a really severe thing to improve: the user control about what makes the battery to run out. Usually you have unknown processes wasting CPU and they are useless for you. It is all that I have to say.