Perceived lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) continues to be the dominant reason enterprises are considering SaaS adoption, with 50% of respondents in 2012 mentioning this as the primary factor in their decision.
As a result, the European standard (GSM) fast became dominant in the mobile industry, enabling manufacturers to produce telecom infrastructure at low cost and reducing the risk for network operators and consumers to buy the new equipment.
"Google's predatory distribution of Android at below-cost makes it difficult for other providers of operating systems to recoup investments in competing with Google's dominant mobile platform, " FairSearch said in a statement.