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I imagine android would probably survive via search engine placement fees similar to safari / iOS / firefox.
by jldugger 6y ago
I imagine android would probably survive via search engine placement fees similar to safari / iOS / firefox.
- eloisant 6y agoAlso funded by all the phone manufacturers who have a vested interest in seeing it not die (like the Linux kernel)
- majewsky 6y agoPhone manufacturers on average aren't particularly famous for their contributions to the Linux kernel. It's still notoriously difficult to get mainline Linux to run on any Android phone even years after its initial release.
- eloisant 6y agoI'm not talking about phone manufacturers funding the Linux kernel, but how they might want to fund an "Android consortium" like Linux is funded by companies like Redhat and IBM.