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You are free to not use Android. That is choice. Everything else that follows is based off of your choice to use Android. There are consequences to your choi
by VikingCoder 8y ago
You are free to not use Android. That is choice.
Everything else that follows is based off of your choice to use Android.
There are consequences to your choices. You don't have a line-item veto, after the fact, on contract terms.
If you want Google to stop open sourcing Android, this is how you do it.
Then you will lose the choice to have Android at all, unless Google is the provider, possibly with Samsung or Jolla as the OEM.
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- r00fus 8y agoSo take it or leave it eh? And what about Google choosing an anti-competitive (i.e. Illegal) business model?
- VikingCoder 8y agoThey are far, far more open than iOS. You can actually replace the built-in apps.
- ionised 8y agoYou didn't answer his question.
- VikingCoder 8y agoI'm attacking the assertion that the business model should be illegal. The law is currently written that a competitor, who gets twice as much revenue in their app store, and has far stricter controls, is not in trouble. That's moronic.
- face_mcgace 8y agoStill didn’t answer their question.
- VikingCoder 8y ago"So take it or leave it eh?" Yes. "And what about Google choosing anti-competitive (i.e. Illegal) business model?" I think the law should be re-written so its not illegal, or what Google's competitors are doing should also be considered illegal. I made both of those points abundantly clear. Yes, I did answer their question.
- zaarn 8y agoA competitor that has less than 15% of the market on smartphones, 0% of the market on search and under 5% of the market on browsers. The business model is not illegal but it is if abused to leverage market position against the competition. Apple doesn't have a large market nor do they leverage their market position to force potential competition out of said market.