Because of the Kumon method, that is used very little in the Ocident. Kids learn three-digits addiction in preschool, as well as nouns, verbs and adjectives. At high school they already know advanced math (calculus, vectors, linear algebra, statistics, probability, etc...)

Yep, the same thing Facebook is doing with Whatsapp, Instagram...pure NSA surveillance strategy, nothing to do with Capitalism. puts titanium hat

This is an old prearranged contract to produce low-cost android smartphones to emerging markets way before the Microsoft deal.

It's not about quantity. It's about quality. And every big player is trying to crush Windows Phone platform. Google is so ridiculous that they're willing to lose big money by not making its glorified ad service on the platform. Google made Youtube and pulled back, Google search on WP is ridiculous. Not even Maps, which has great social network potential, much more than Youtube.

It's ridiculous that you think that

"Google is so ridiculous that they're willing to lose big money by not making its glorified ad service on the platform."

On the contrary, Google is brilliant by not wasting their time and money on an irrelevant platform that has no hope for success and market share adoption.

I can think of so many things that can go wrong from sexual harassment lawsuits to a samsung-or-other-made battery exploding in the face of the user.