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Google holds all the cards. They have to sign off, or the phones will lose access to the Play Store and Google services like Maps. Google only needs to play the
by pcwalton 10y ago
Google holds all the cards. They have to sign off, or the phones will lose access to the Play Store and Google services like Maps. Google only needs to play the cards it already holds.
- mentat 10y agoIt does play those cards, for instance to mandate full disk encryption. They're moving the standard forward, just not as fast as some may want.
- sangnoir 10y agoThe networks have to sign off too, or the phones won't get the OTA updates or be allowed to connect to the network. The SoC / OEMs also have to sign off because they are the ones with access to the driver source code which needs to be updated and recompiled against a new release. If Google plays hardball, these parties can always threaten Google with "We're leaving the OHA; we will be going with Amazon's Android fork and bundle Kindle and Prime apps." I'm sure Bezos will throw in Amazon Maps for free.