The Android approach of coding an operating system and then providing it at a low cost so that hardware manufacturers would drive users towards Google services might have looked attractive on paper, but it would not reach a billion users without a huge amount of time and effort on the part of Facebook.
Predictive coding technology is beginning to gain broader acceptance within the legal community as an alternative approach to the drudgery of page-by-page manual document review, but some have expressed reluctance.
However, the industry should demand that predictive coding providers include enough transparency into their tools so both parties can evaluate the soundness of the underlying statistical approach being applied.