Originally Posted by
aximtreo I'm not sure that the OEM's would ditch Android. As a matter of fact, with the low market share that WP's have, it would be financial suicide. Just my feeling at this time.
That's why I said that it would require them to get together. And if Google decided to intervene in their business decisions just to prevent them from releasing a phone with a different OS, they might just to that. Remember, OEMs are in it for the money, but they are in it to make money they way they want, not Google. If Sony, LG, HTC and even Samsung were to agree in ditching Android, the market should shift in favour of Microsoft. Because developers would go after OEMs. If they stopped releasing Android phones, developers would stop developing to the platform.
But you're right. It's also WP's low market share that would "prevent" Google from even bother to influence OEMs to not release WP devices.
This is all theory of course. Neither would Google try to prevent OEMs from re-purpose their Android hardware as WP, neither would they all get together to ditch a certain platform.