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According to the article, the "FUD" is coming from those partners you listed above. BusinessWeek attributed complaints about Android's waning openness to "a

According to the article, the "FUD" is coming from those partners you listed above. BusinessWeek attributed complaints about Android's waning openness to "a dozen executives" at companies that are major Android stakeholders, including LG, Samsung, Toshiba, and Facebook. There are 2 main points in the article. 1) Why does Google feel the need to play favorites? Aside: if shortcuts were taken to get a manufacturer partner's product to market, what does that tell you about the product, from a consumer and developer point-of-view? 2) Why did Andy Rubin not address the fact that Skyhook Wireless was prevented from doing business with Motorola because it competed with Google's geo-location services?

patrickaljord 16y ago
> 1) Why does Google feel the need to play favorites? This has always been the case, why complain now? Soon the source will be released and that'll be the end of it (until the next release and the usual FUD). And I doubt the businessweeks article, they didn't give any proofs, meanwhile android devices are being released every weeks so allow me to doubt. > 2) Why did Andy Rubin not address the fact that Skyhook Wireless was prevented from doing business with Motorola because it competed with Google's geo-location services? Android the OS is open source, google apps have never been so. So you expect google to make a free operating that will make manufacturers millions of dollars and on top of that you expect google to offer its apps and web services for free? Google is not santa, it's perfectly fair to ask for conditions in exchange of their apps, if the manufacturers doesn't want them, they can always just ship the OS with their own apps.