Android is the next MS-DOS. I am not consigning Android to the landfill of technology history.  In fact I am predicting that Android may well become the de facto personal computing architecture of the (near) future.  My prognostication are not divine nor demented, nor are they a technologist’s religious rhetorical report.  This is pure marketing led by the second most important part of the marketing mix:  the people that provide product. In this case, programmers. Repeating myself — as I am too fond of doing — people buy operating systems to run applications.  Applications achieve things and the OS exists for no other reason than to facilitate applications.  Thus platform wars are won by having a large set of applications that work well together (or at least don’t drop-kick one another into inoperability) and thus increase the likelihood that any end user will find the solution/application for which he/she/it is … Continue reading →