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Amazon did it with the Kindle Fire, so it isn't impossible. Google doesn't make money on the devices themselves. Being able to enforce rules like this is their
by beaner 8y ago
Amazon did it with the Kindle Fire, so it isn't impossible.
Google doesn't make money on the devices themselves. Being able to enforce rules like this is their motivation for developing Android in the first place.
- pkulak 8y agoAnd like 4 auto makers do it with their cars, and Lord knows how many TVs, toasters, and whatever else that's running Android these days.
- simion314 8y agoThe reason they started Android was because they did not want Apple to win all the market.
- em3rgent0rdr 8y ago> "they started Android" Android was created in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, before Google bought it in 2005 > "because they did not want Apple to win all the market" Actual purpose was: "The early intentions of the company were to develop an advanced operating system for digital cameras, and this was the basis of its pitch to investors in April 2004. The company then decided that the market for cameras was not large enough for its goals, and by five months later it had diverted its efforts and was pitching Android as a handset operating system that would rival Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
- simion314 8y agoYou are right, Google did not intended Android to be a move against Apple from the start, this happened later after iPhone release. I am also remembering about some emails between Steve Jobs and someone at Google but I can't find them, anyway Google is paying a ton of money to Apple to be set as default search engine, if Apple gets a bigger market share then Google will have to pay even more.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoThe Kindle Fire phone failed miserably.
- jonlucc 8y agoI suspect that's because the phone market is very hard to get into. If I remember correctly, they didn't have any carrier partners, which is how the majority of phones in the US were sold at the time (and probably still are). The success of Fire tablets, such as it is, is enough to show that it's possible to ship a device without Google Play Services and be in the market. Why does it have to be a phone?
- IanCal 8y agoI think part of the problem with the Kindle fire was manufacturers couldn't make a device with Amazon and another with Google due to Google's licensing. That was part of the antitrust suit.