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Hilariously anti competitive licensing agreements that companies like Google require for example. All the large phone manufacturers are required to preinstall G
by josefx 6y ago
Hilariously anti competitive licensing agreements that companies like Google require for example. All the large phone manufacturers are required to preinstall Googles software on any Android they sell and give it preferential treatment, selling an Android phone without would be a Play Store license violation in the U.S. . Market pressure against Google Play would have to be gigantic to get them to completely abandon their existing product lines.
> In a free and open market,
Could you tell me were to find one? Even Amazon had issues getting its kindle product line produced and it doesn't exactly lack the money to get that done.
- nradov 6y agoIt is possible and legal to build and sell an Android phone using the free AOSP with no Google Play store or other Google services. However very few customers would buy it because it would be missing many of the features they expect. https://source.android.com/ https://source.android.com/
- tpxl 6y agoGoogle used to refuse to license Google Play store to any vendor that had any android phone without it.
- josefx 6y ago> However very few customers would buy it because it would be missing many of the features they expect. There is a glaringly large hole in that claim: Despite Googles best efforts the Amazon Kindle exists and people used it. I even explicitly mentioned that Amazon had issues finding a manufacturer to produce it.
- nradov 6y agoThe Kindle is only a special purpose media consumption device. Amazon's attempt at building a smartphone was a market failure.