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> This only changes things if manufacturers start making 'empty' phones and require users to download and install their own free operating system. Actually thi
by azakai 15y ago
> This only changes things if manufacturers start making 'empty' phones and require users to download and install their own free operating system.
Actually this is a very good idea. Phones could be sold with just a tiny 'installer' that downloads the OS directly from Google.
The first benefit would be that there is no software to sue the phone makers about. Microsoft, RIM and Apple would have to sue Google itself.
The second benefit would be that the phone uses stock Android, not modified with crapware.
- seabee 15y agoStock Android is also not modified with any handset-specific features that genuinely add value.
- Pooter 15y ago> Actually this is a very good idea. This is a stupid idea. Most people buy phones in wireless providers' stores, get them provisioned there, and then leave with a functioning phone. The idea of a bare phone that you can do whatever you want with would be appealing to a vanishingly small portion of the phone buying population. Everyone else would ask to see the iPhone, a Blackberry, or one of them Windows phones, because having to do do an OS install on a cell phone before you can use it would be a hasslicious waste of time for most people.