You know, now that I am using Android, I remember the old days, 6 - 7 years back when the dominating OS was Symbian. Why? I found a lot of similarity between Symbian and Android; many apps and games and easily pirated, file manager, freedom to customise (although now at a different level in Android), sometimes awkward UI, blah blah blah. But more than that. What was Symbian's main rival? Sony Ericsson's OS which is simple, having dumbproof UI and not so customisable yet many games as well. What is Android's main rival now? iOS; simple, dumbproof UI, not so customisable and yet many games.
Is history repeating itself? Probably. Will there be a game changer soon, much like iOS on Symbian and Sony Ericsson's OS? We have Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry OS 10 coming, not to mention Boot 2 Gecko by Mozilla and Tizen OS, and the newly formed Jolla OS, a continuation of Meego OS. Any of them beating the top two? Maybe, maybe not. Let us see if life really just repeats itself.
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