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• billybilly1920 11y ago
  They are still being sued by Oracle over the base the OS is built on.
  • blazespin 11y ago
    Lol, i love how this is at the bottom of the HN comments page. Sometimes HN can be kinda clueless.
    • bdcravens 11y ago
      Not sure what the status of that lawsuit has to do with anything. It's not like Google is going to admit defeat and stop moving forward based on a lawsuit that isn't even resolved (which was dismissed once, only to be revived via appeal). Worst case scenario is that Google will pay a damage and start paying Oracle licensing fees for Android, the same way they pay Microsoft.
      • Oletros 11y ago
        Google doesn't pay Microsoft
        • bdcravens 11y ago
          You're correct - I believe it's the handset manufacturers that do
• fiatjaf 11y ago
  Malware, viruses.
  • Oletros 11y ago
    Please, point just one virus for Android
• fiatjaf 11y ago
  One app interfering with others.
• fiatjaf 11y ago
  Stimuli to closed-source software.
  • Oletros 11y ago
    What are you talking about?
• fiatjaf 11y ago
  Poor separation of personal data and "app data".
  • Oletros 11y ago
    What are you talking about?
• optionalparens 11y ago
  memory management, allocation, and garbage collection. Some of this is from Java, but for awhile, Android GC was a nightmare. It's gotten better, but it still sucks in many scenarios. If you need to support older versions of Android, you can't count on many of the improvements at all to help you. If you've never experienced this, you probably never did any serious performance optimization and things like performance sensitive gamedev on Android.