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> Had Nokia adopted Android and had Google allowed them to maintain MeeGo IIRC that wasn't a possible option, thanks to Google's monopolistic practices that pr
by TuringTest 7y ago
> Had Nokia adopted Android and had Google allowed them to maintain MeeGo
IIRC that wasn't a possible option, thanks to Google's monopolistic practices that prevented other companies from shipping phones with Google's proprietary apps and at the same time shipping phones with alternative mobile OSs.
That was a mayor reason why technical people rooted against Android open-but-not-so-much and for any other available truly-free-software platform.
- canuckintime 7y agoThat’s not true. Samsung shipped GAPPs Android devices along with phones running their own proprietary mobile OS. HTC, Samsung, LG etc shipped GAPPs Android phones at the same time shipped windows mobile phones
- TuringTest 7y agoThat's right, my memory failed me. Google's anti-competition behavior was limited to preventing companies from distributing both devices with and without their proprietary Play Services at the same time, thus making it almost impossible for hardware manufacturers to support non-Google's AOSP full open-source distributions of Android; which is bad enough as it is. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/3/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...
- bitL 7y agoIn NOKIA's case, they couldn't ship e.g. NOKIA Maps (now HERE) as default navigation, but instead use Google Maps; that would make their navigation investment pointless.
- canuckintime 7y agoNo they could have shipped Nokia maps as default just as long as Google Maps was included as part of the GAPPs suite. Samsung still ships many of their proprietary apps as default (Samsung Pay, their own messaging and mail app etc)