Analyst: ‘I Am More Worried About Android Than BlackBerry’

“Even though they have the market numbers, Android is in trouble right now.”

No they're not.

“A certain segment of society…has an aspiration to be differentiated. Android is not catering to that anymore.”
BlackBerry will likely benefit from the “consumer fatigue” that plagues Android, Chowdhry believes.

He sounds like the Linux fans that used to say (and probably still say) "oh, man, Ubuntu is so strong right now, they're right on the brink of fighting Windows. No, they- you give it six months and we'll see big Ubuntu laptops. I swear, man people are gonna get sick of Vista. Window 8.1 is crap and an Ubuntu Revolution is coming. It's just inherently more stable. It's unix, man. Just... in five years you'll forget Windows. People are gonna get sick of their computers slowing down on 'em."

Android isn't going anywhere. Apple and a wide array of Android/Windows manufacturers mean no one's as itching to be different as this guy seems to think. When Samsung got big to the point that everyone from contract phone buyers to prepaid customers had a Samsung Galaxy something, HTC started getting big, and offered a different enough device (and U.I. skin) to make a selection of Android users to feel like a special snowflake. Android will continue to cycle through manufacturers to stay trendy, they aren't making room for Blackberry.

“[President] Obama uses BlackBerry,” said Chowdhry. “Why?"

Because he's an old man.

Joking aside, sure, the Blackberry name means something to the German government, Obama, and I'm gonna assume some other government organizations an angry Blackberry fan is about to make me aware of. However,

"Android... will not get a single [security conscious] customer because they do not have the credibility of securing privacy."

is absolute horseshit. Android has device encryption, more options for end-to-end encrypted communication, is open source so you can know everything your phone is programmed to do... it may not be the primary choice for bankers but for the average person who goes "I want a phone the NSA can't touch," Android has more selling points than "it's a Blackberry, just encrypt it, Blackberry is safe!" We can argue all day over whether Android or Blackberry is the better security option (although I can probably guess how this sub feels) but it's not an Apple case where everyone worldwide is going "yeah, there's no way to make a secure iPhone." There are plenty of buyers who want a secure phone, who are going to go Android (whether or not you agree they should). They aren't government officials but with the $279 Leap I don't think Blackberry is content with just targeting government officials.

Google "the Snowden phone" - there's a couple of results, they're Androids. Google which phone is detecting fake cell towers - it's Android. Deserved or not, Android does have a name in certain realms of security.

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