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So much for Google touting android being open...

• Kylekramer 14y ago
  Source code is still there. Acer still could have used it. Assuming this is true, Google threatened Acer with removing access to the always closed source Google apps and Play Store. It is a hardball business move and not exactly consistent with the shiny happy feel good part of the open source philosophy, but doesn't really make Android less open.
  • kevingadd 14y ago
    Core parts of the Android experience not being open almost certainly makes Android less open.
    • wonderyak 14y ago
      Android != Google Apps. Amazon seems to be doing just fine with it, just as all the ROM developers have.
      • barista 14y ago
        Though Amazon never extracts any marketing mileage out of the openness of android. Google just sounds disingenuous here
        • wonderyak 14y ago
          Why would they want to advertise Google or Android? They have a product to sell! Focus!
        • drivebyacct2 14y ago
          Why? Why oh why do they sound disingenuous? AOSP is OSS. Google's proprietary apps, for their propreitary services (GMail, Google Calendar, Google Play), are not. Why d you so wrongly act like Google has to provide those applications? Especially if someone has forked Android to compete with traditional Android offerings?
    • Kylekramer 14y ago
      The comment I was replying to was about Google touting openness. I was merely saying that this move was entirely based on parts of Android that were never touted as open.
    • jemfinch 14y ago
      Does "Linux" being trademarked make it less open?
• nmridul 14y ago
  I think its more about Android Trademark. If I use an android fork, i cannot claim "Powered by Android" unless google approves of it. You can use the source and do whatever you want. But just don't use the Android name.