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I agree, if dropped, this will motivate big electronics players to release smart phones powered by android that aren't Google infested. Sometimes when I'm in a

I agree, if dropped, this will motivate big electronics players to release smart phones powered by android that aren't Google infested. Sometimes when I'm in a cynical mood, I feel like my android phone isn't really mine, it's owned by google and exists purely to serve them. This would improve the smartphone market on so many levels. We need a great driver support for AOSP, multiple app stores, community driven updates, so on and so forth to make this new reality. I also feel like Android could play a huge role in IoT if it weren't as Google infested as you call it. PS - site is working fine for me.

andrepd 8y ago
>Sometimes when I'm in a cynical mood, I feel like my android phone isn't really mine, it's owned by google and exists purely to serve them. But this is objectively true, else why would Google spend so much money developing an OS to release for free?
mda 8y ago
This is a funny comment. You can get a samsung infested phone anytime, or Amazon, or any something from China? AOSP is created and being developed by google, calling Google's applications infestation is weird. You can also get an Apple infested (to the very core) phone as well.
- r_singh 8y ago
  Fair enough. I still feel like iPhones are infested with apple apps for my benefit or at least to not let other cos take advantage of me. Apple’s privacy oriented disposition makes this perception. My iPhone serves me even if it is apple infested. My Nexus 6P can’t make me feel the same. Feels like it exists only to feed google data about me, and help me a little while doing so.
sigzero 8y ago
>Sometimes when I'm in a cynical mood, I feel like my android phone isn't really mine, it's owned by google and exists purely to serve them. I am not aware of a smartphone out there where that isn't true. What is the incentive for Google to continue updating Android at all?
antpls 8y ago
> I also feel like Android could play a huge role in IoT if it weren't as Google infested as you call it. Google does develop a fork of Android for IoT, called Android Things : https://developer.android.com/things/ https://developer.android.com/things/ It's basically an Android system with a minimal list of apps and services (no Google apps for example) intended to run only one user app.

andrepd 8y ago

>Sometimes when I'm in a cynical mood, I feel like my android phone isn't really mine, it's owned by google and exists purely to serve them. But this is objectively true, else why would Google spend so much money developing an OS to release for free?

mda 8y ago

This is a funny comment. You can get a samsung infested phone anytime, or Amazon, or any something from China? AOSP is created and being developed by google, calling Google's applications infestation is weird. You can also get an Apple infested (to the very core) phone as well.

r_singh 8y ago
Fair enough. I still feel like iPhones are infested with apple apps for my benefit or at least to not let other cos take advantage of me. Apple’s privacy oriented disposition makes this perception. My iPhone serves me even if it is apple infested. My Nexus 6P can’t make me feel the same. Feels like it exists only to feed google data about me, and help me a little while doing so.

sigzero 8y ago

>Sometimes when I'm in a cynical mood, I feel like my android phone isn't really mine, it's owned by google and exists purely to serve them. I am not aware of a smartphone out there where that isn't true. What is the incentive for Google to continue updating Android at all?

antpls 8y ago

> I also feel like Android could play a huge role in IoT if it weren't as Google infested as you call it. Google does develop a fork of Android for IoT, called Android Things : https://developer.android.com/things/ https://developer.android.com/things/ It's basically an Android system with a minimal list of apps and services (no Google apps for example) intended to run only one user app.