First, we don't know what Android's "true potential" is yet because it hasn't realized it yet.. unless it has and its what its doing now, but we still don't know that its not more than that. Maybe its true potential is that after Windows takes over all phones Android will power the UI to your car, who knows.
Anyway, Android is moving down the chain and inasmuch as smartphone economics look like mobile phone V1 economics, they should be getting too at the <$1000pa earners within a few years. Incredible when you think about it. Mobiles went from stock brokers and movie stars only to sustenance farmers in the worst run countries on earth in only a decade. People who haven't been reached by things like electricity, piped water or paved roads. A half a generation old technology has, in some cases, better market penetration than things so old we can't even think of them as technology. Things like literacy & money.
Anyway, Android is moving down the chain and inasmuch as smartphone economics look like mobile phone V1 economics, they should be getting too at the <$1000pa earners within a few years. Incredible when you think about it. Mobiles went from stock brokers and movie stars only to sustenance farmers in the worst run countries on earth in only a decade. People who haven't been reached by things like electricity, piped water or paved roads. A half a generation old technology has, in some cases, better market penetration than things so old we can't even think of them as technology. Things like literacy & money.