How would you compete against Google?

mrochester

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As we know, Google has a very dominant position in the smartphone operating system market. As part of creating “Android” phones, manufacturers are required to bundle certain Google apps so that they can gain access to the Play Store.

If you were a developer looking to create a competing app to one of Google’s, how do you think you would compete with those preinstalled/default apps that are already present on the device?

Food for thought.
 
Well if you gave me around $10 billion I could probably have a go. Facebook have spends around $4 billion on network infrastructure and are building a new $750 million data center. So the reason these companies are so powerful is because the can serve their own content, buy up companies and afford the best developers. For example they didn't create the Android OS originally, it was written independently and they acquired it. Though who knows what goes on behind the scenes maybe they had a hand in its original development, who knows. Same with their mobile phones, they buy tech companies or do a special deal with them.

The actual play store app is not too difficult to write, it's hosting all the apps that it has that costs a lot of money in storage and bandwidth.

There are conspiracy theories that claim the CIA/NSA had a hand in creating and funding Google originally for whatever reason. I think for surveillance purposes.

Google doesn't really have many apps anyway, gmail and the store, maps(which again takes a huge amount of money to setup and run). They probably have their own satellites and also all the G camera cars. So money talks.

Read this about the CIA and google

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e
 
mrochester said:
Both of those, Chrome etc.
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Well just like any business, by creating a USP.

You could argue that taking on the iOS market would be an easier first step. Build up a following/customer base on the iOS marketing and then release to Android. That would provide you with users straight away as long as the app is desirable.

That's how I'd do it.

Take a look at Waze, they took on and defeated (IMO) Google Maps. They did so by creating something only they had.

Browsers will always struggle because they're simply just a browser. What more can a user really ask for? There's nothing my browser doesn't do, and to be frank, the average user doesn't care about the speed of their browser because they'll just blame that on the "Wi-Fi" or the hardware.

YouTube is such a beast and nothing springs to mind that has actually challenged it...
 
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