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by melling 3841 days ago
Yes, obviously it's a chicken and egg problem. Once they sell 100,000,000 "desktop" devices that'll change. The reason Microsoft Windows destroyed everyone else was because you couldn't get quality software for most other computers. Windows Phone can't gain traction because it lacks quality software, for example. The problem is that software rarely comes first.

In short, if enough people overlook Android's shortcomings, it'll eventually reach a tipping point.