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Android is winning for Google in a massive way once you understand their goal. Google's Android and even Chrome strategies are that _no one_ should win at the

by trimbo 14y ago

Android is winning for Google in a massive way once you understand their goal. Google's Android and even Chrome strategies are that _no one_ should win at the OS/platform level. They never want another Windows, or Mac, or IE, or anything that prevents them from leveraging the open web because it's fronted with proprietary code that can block them. The best way to win at that game is to either force the market to adopt the system they can manage ("with Google" approved Android phones and the market) or make the web the only worthwhile source of truth among a hodge-podge of OSes that try to bolt on proprietary components. Even the major commercial forks of Android have not yet proved to derail this from succeeding.

rimantas 14y ago
> that try to bolt on proprietary components I will always prefer something that has no ads bolted on.
- hythloday 14y ago
  Just want to point out that, literally, this implies you prefer Windows (no ads by default) to Ubuntu (ad for Launchpad in /etc/motd).
  - andyking 14y ago
    I don't see an ad: $ cat /etc/motd Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
    - hythloday 14y ago
      Not sure if you're being facetious, but recent versions of Ubuntu have included by default an advertisement for Landscape (not Launchpad, mea culpa): http://www.ralree.com/2011/11/25/removing-advertising-from-ubuntu-server-motd/ http://www.ralree.com/2011/11/25/removing-advertising-from-u... If this is no longer the case that's great. :)
    - notatoad 14y ago
      /etc/motd is a script that generates the motd on any somewhat vrecent version of ubuntu, it is not just that static file. On ubuntu server, one of the things it includes is an ad for landscape. you won't see it on Ubuntu desktop.
ThomPete 14y ago
Again it's only a win if they figure out a way to monetize on it and they haven't yet. I doubt they will, but lets see.

by trimbo 14y ago

rimantas 14y ago

> that try to bolt on proprietary components I will always prefer something that has no ads bolted on.

hythloday 14y ago
Just want to point out that, literally, this implies you prefer Windows (no ads by default) to Ubuntu (ad for Launchpad in /etc/motd).
- andyking 14y ago
  I don't see an ad: $ cat /etc/motd Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
  - hythloday 14y ago
    Not sure if you're being facetious, but recent versions of Ubuntu have included by default an advertisement for Landscape (not Launchpad, mea culpa): http://www.ralree.com/2011/11/25/removing-advertising-from-ubuntu-server-motd/ http://www.ralree.com/2011/11/25/removing-advertising-from-u... If this is no longer the case that's great. :)
  - notatoad 14y ago
    /etc/motd is a script that generates the motd on any somewhat vrecent version of ubuntu, it is not just that static file. On ubuntu server, one of the things it includes is an ad for landscape. you won't see it on Ubuntu desktop.

ThomPete 14y ago

Again it's only a win if they figure out a way to monetize on it and they haven't yet. I doubt they will, but lets see.