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Google will just make it a requirement in order to provide the Play Store and other Google apps on your device. Then most will be forced to follow along. I cou
by untog 8y ago
Google will just make it a requirement in order to provide the Play Store and other Google apps on your device. Then most will be forced to follow along.
I could see it being the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for Samsung, though. They have their own assistant, web browser... they could just choose to go it alone.
- max76 8y agoThis sounds like a cost to phone manufacturers, not a benefit.
- toast0 8y agoAt this point manufacturers don't have a lot of choices. To a reasonable approximation, the options are Android with google's blessing, android without play store, beg microsoft for windows mobile 10?, KaiOS, Tizen?, don't make phones. About the only one that will sell the final product in the US is Android with Google's blessing.
- max76 8y agoCorrect, Google has all the leverage to dictate what non-Apple smartphone manufacturers sell. Moving to Fuchsia would be expensive for everybody involved. Google is developing a new OS. Chip manufacturers will have to write new driver code. Cell manufacturers will have to integrate a new system. Everyone loses the work they put into the Android Open Source Project and their private branches of ASOP. With all this cost, who's getting the upside? Google is clearly getting the lion's share.