Comment on Apple hits “all-time high” smartphone market share, takes #1 spot for 2023
filister@lemmy.world 10 months agoIt is almost impossible to penetrate the smartphone market at the moment, as both iOS and Android have this robust app ecosystem and polished OS experience and this is an extremely high bar to cross.
Jus see what happened with Windows mobile or even Nokia, and mind you that was years ago. Now it should be even harder.
I think the only one who could have actually competed was BlackBerry—properly managed. They already had the business market. If they had just kept pace with Android, they could have had a really solid footing.
Also, and to a far lesser extent, FirefoxOS. I could go on and on about how much better PWAs are for most apps. And because they’re so easy to make, they really could have grabbed a lot of the hobby market.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Developing for iOS and Android is expensive and painful. Adding a third ecosystem to that would be more expensive and more painful.
We could probably come up with something Android adjacent that was able to run APKs. Hell I guess Amazon kind of tried that already.
Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel for free.
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
It’s already there. Jolla’s SailfishOS can run Android apps using their AlienDalvik compatibility layer. PostmarketOS can also run Android apps using Waydroid.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I had mentioned Firefox OS, now Capyloon. It’s basically PWAs, which would be so easy to make because they just use web technologies