Re: [OT] mobile rising

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

I also think we should add to this discussion that Google was 
hellbent on going forward with Android even when it was clearly 
inferior. Apple tried to squish out Google's services from their 
iOS products for a while. And that is exactly what Google tries 
to prevent by funding things like Chrome and Android.

So for Google Chrome and Android does not have to make sense in 
business terms, it is basically an anti-competitive tool to 
protect their own hegemony (relative monopoly) by retaining 
critical mass and making it difficult for competitors to build up 
a competing product over time (you need a source of income while 
your product is evolving from mediocre to great to do that).