The Untapped Potential of Android One
Hidden gems are a great tool for storytelling. Think about when you are talking to your friends and food gets brought up. You bring up that quaint little restaurant that nobody knows about, and wax poetic about an amazing burger that you had there. You feel like the trendy friend, the one that knew about the next big thing before it was the next big thing. While this applies for food, in the world of consumer technology being a hidden gem often relegates an idea or a product into the land of what could have been. This has been the fate of projects such as WebOS and MeeGo, and I fear that this could be the fate of the Android One project. Here’s what can be done to avoid such a fate.
Simplicity is a Virtue
We need to go back to 2014 for the origins of the Android One program. At the time, the initiative was designed as a way to bring the stock Google experience that was found on Nexus phones and eventually Pixel devices to the midrange and lower end tiers of the smartphone food chain. The reasoning was quite sound at the time and is even more important now. While top end flagship phones will always get attention and updates, phones that operate at the lower price tier that…
