Significance: Android’s honeymoon period is over ‘ not in terms of market share, which continues to rise, but in terms of unquestioning support from the ecosystem. Litigation and conflicts of interest are alienating key OEMs, and many of them want freedom to create a more differentiated user experience in their own images. Such vendors ‘ Samsung, ZTE, HTC ‘ will not defocus on Android, but rather will promote second or third OS choices alongside it. Windows Phone will benefit from this, but so will cloud-based Linux platforms like Mozilla’s or Baidu’s. Google’s sense of threat was seen when it clamped down on Android partner Acer launching a smartphone running the Chinese OS, Alibaba’s Aliyun. It seems the smartphone OS world…