Please correct me if I am not correct but
Google was invited by MS to join the group who eventually won the Notel's patent bid but they (snobbishly) decided not to be part of the group. They than decided to go in the bidding war on their own and eventually stopped bidding at around $4.4 billion (or something like that) and the other group eventually won. They than came out in public telling every one that how the other group is anti innovation
Google knew they were far behind at the patent scene and to make up for that they bought
Motorola Mobility for around $12 billion and we all knew that after being acquired by Google, Motorola Mobility has already sued
Apple over several mobile technology related patent infringements.
Although I agree that over one billion people have adopted
Android and there must be something appreciable with the Operating System that so many people have been adopting it but you are making a mistake of comparing Android, the operating system with
iPhone, the device
chromaniac said:
the problem is claiming that the phone is the best. it might be the best for you. but a billion users out there picked android over it.
Further being adopted by 100 billion people is a measure of popularity of the system and not its quality. If I ask you to compare the smart phone owned by your paan wala with an iPhone 5s (please do not consider the price difference for a moment) which one do you think is better from performance perspective? I here also agree that there might be phone which are better than iPhone 5s but certainly not all of one biillion androids phones are better than iPhone.
As an analogy please consider the fact that Maruti sells tens of thosands of Swifts's every year but does that make it the best car in the world? Is Maruti ought to price its car competitively despite the fact that people any way queue up to buy a new swift? Does that make Maruti a bad company in your eye?