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Why is this fee still with strings attached ? If they are going to charge for play services, just deliver play services for the fee. They want OEMs to bundle pl
by bubblethink 8y ago
Why is this fee still with strings attached ? If they are going to charge for play services, just deliver play services for the fee. They want OEMs to bundle playstore, youtube, maps etc., still pay the 40 bucks, and end-user anyway has to pay with ads and personal data. So how is this helping anyone ?
- wmf 8y agoIt's helping other search engines which was the point. You might see phones with Bing instead of Google.
- Justsignedup 8y agoWhile people say that OEMs now have to pay up. The reality is that Bing will be paying. The real trick is that Android has all the assistant features, which means that Android will be shipped crippled without them.
- bubblethink 8y agoThat seems to be a minor side-effect at best. This is generally more predatory, and closer to the windows 10 model i.e., a paid operating system that is user-hostile, and users generally don't have a way to opt out of the cost since OEMs won't really sell a machine without an OS or with linux. The $40 is still going to be passed on to the end-user here while nothing really changes.