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Blackberry, Tizen, Windows Phone, FirefoxOS. Samsung, HTC, Huawei, Alcatel, Nokia, LG. How does Google, running closed and un-licensable Android with no phone
by COGlory 3y ago
Blackberry, Tizen, Windows Phone, FirefoxOS. Samsung, HTC, Huawei, Alcatel, Nokia, LG.
How does Google, running closed and un-licensable Android with no phone to put it on, compete?
- Pxtl 3y agoName one of those OSes that had a quality phone on the market with a zero-dollar-license OS in 2009. Android was first modern mobile OS to market that would run on 3rd party devices (unlike Apple and RIM). Tizen was 2013. Win phone was 2011, and had license fees to use it.
- COGlory 3y agoIn this scenario (locked down like Apple), 3rd party devices aren't running Android.
- Pxtl 3y agoWhat? Why would devices locked down at the OS-level to only a 1st-party store and only permitting installing through that 1st-party store be hardware-bound? Winphones were bound to the Windows store, but were 3rd-party devices.
- COGlory 3y agoBecause the comparison is to Apple.
- Pxtl 3y agoThe lawsuits vs Google and Apple were about was allowing 3rd-party stores onto your platform, not about hardware lock-in.
- COGlory 3y agoEpic vs Google: Epic wins. Epic vs Apple: Epic loses. Comments like OP: "Lesson learned: just lock down your platform like Apple" My response: "If Android is locked down [like Apple] it never gets big" Not sure why this is so hard to follow.
- nolok 3y agoYou're confusing open and available for licensing
- COGlory 3y agoNo, the comparison here is to Apple.