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Flamebaity nonsense about nothing. I almost thought I will see a "is this all very confusing to you? Just use this other platform." somewhere. But the whole art
by blinkingled 14y ago
Flamebaity nonsense about nothing. I almost thought I will see a "is this all very confusing to you? Just use this other platform." somewhere. But the whole article is just a bunch of made up crap that has no real consequences.
It doesn't matter if AOSP is called Androidium or iHateittum. So long as the apps run (which they do - on the Kindle, on the Samsungs, on the ZTEs etc.), it is still Android - kinda like a better, actually working J2ME.
And so long as you can make your own, fully functional OS out of AOSP, sideload apps and other markets on what the OHA distributes, it is still very much open - the fact that Google's non-open apps are only available to those oha members under reasonable conditions (btw CyanogenMod, which is not part of OHA, uses sideloaded GApps and Google isnt shutting them off) is no reason to call Android closed. Google to my knowledge hasnt called their apps open.
- vibrunazo 14y agoPardon my ignorance, but what exactly are the benefits of the OHA? What exactly would HTC be missing if they abandoned the OHA and released the phone anyway? Would there still be a play store and google apps on their phone?
- barrkel 14y agoA company selling devices and profiting from Android would probably not escape attention if they put Google apps on the devices, unlike Cyanogen. So yes, there would be no Play store or Google apps - and some say the Google Maps navigation is Android's killer feature.
- blinkingled 14y agoBenefits of OHA are that the members get access to shared IP , Google's Ecosystem and technical collaboration along with possibility of building a lead device ala Nexus. For their part, handset manufacturers get to share their IP when it makes sense and pass the compatibility test that helps Google avoid incompatible implementations.
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