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I'm curious exactly how they figure Google is abusing their position, when you can change all the default apps and search to anything you want, and manufacturer

by Mikeb85 11y ago

I'm curious exactly how they figure Google is abusing their position, when you can change all the default apps and search to anything you want, and manufacturers can create a fork and do anything they want with it (witness Ubuntu Phone, Firefox OS, Cyanogenmod, Amazon Kindle Fire OS or whatever it's called, etc...). All Google is requiring is certain conditions to be able to call it 'Android', not unlike Mozilla and Firefox branding.

kuschku 11y ago
> and manufacturers can create a fork and do anything they want with it That’s exactly what Google prohibits. If you want to sell one or two phones with the Play Store, all your other phones have to adhere to Google’s rules, too. You can’t ship 50 phones with Play Store and 50 phones with Kindle-Android. Amazon couldn’t use any of the major OEMs for building their Kindle devices for this same reason.