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Amazon and Google are both ruining Android. Amazon for apps that arbitrarily only work on their hardware is awful, forcing customers to buy multiple devices (n
by ericfrederich 11y ago
Amazon and Google are both ruining Android.
Amazon for apps that arbitrarily only work on their hardware is awful, forcing customers to buy multiple devices (no Amazon Video on the Nexus Player).
Google for not making the play store installable on non-Google approved hardware. At least the Amazon app store is made available as a download from Amazon even if Amazon Video won't work on your device.
- MichaelGG 11y agoYou've got it backwards on Google Play. If Google had taken a bit of a stronger arm in the beginning, we wouldn't have the fragmentation and shitty experience (Huawei's crap UI, Samsung's crap UI, etc.) that we have today. Google's slowly trying to clean it up, and perhaps the few-restrictions early play was a Trojan Horse. But opening Android up now would certainly be a mistake as it'd only further encourage OEMs to screw it up. Look at Microsoft and how much they suffered at the hands of terrible OEMs.
- Spivak 11y agoLook, if you want an iPhone, just buy one. You're describing their business model exactly. Having a walled garden is great up until the point they start making decisions you don't like. And usually by that point you don't have any control to stop them.