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I thought Open Handset Alliance partners couldn't sell devices running a true Android fork without losing Google as a partner? How will that come into play her

I thought Open Handset Alliance partners couldn't sell devices running a true Android fork without losing Google as a partner? How will that come into play here?

hospadam 14y ago
I'm pretty sure they (Facebook) will lose the ability to call this an "Android" phone - and clearly they won't be entitled to the Google Suite of apps. Further than that... I don't think there are any repercussions.
- taligent 14y ago
  Apart from Maps which is going to be interesting the rest of the Google Suite is easily replaceable.
AnthonyMouse 14y ago
Facebook has been known to partner with Microsoft. It's possible that the phone will be full of Bing. On the other hand, Microsoft is trying to promote their own phone OS, and this phone is clearly DOA if it doesn't run Android apps, but I can't see Microsoft liking the idea of promoting the Android ecosystem. It's kind of funny actually. You could see how it could make sense for Microsoft and Facebook to work together and create some Facebook Phone running WP8, except they each probably think the other is going to fail and don't want to board a sinking ship.
- nivla 14y ago
  >Facebook has been known to partner with Microsoft. Not very likely, given the fact that Windows Phone has yet to receive an official Facebook app. However, design wise the windows 8 tile architecture would be the perfectly suited for Facebook and Instagram. Its all about how you pull it off, but given how buggy and incomplete my Facebook app on Nexus 7 is, I hardly have any faith in FB. On the side note, they should have partnered with Nokia instead of HTC.
notatoad 14y ago
They can't sell devices that use an android-derived OS that isn't android compatible. As long as the phone could still run arbitrary APKs without modification, they're still within the terms of the OHA, and HTC can continue to sell official android devices. You can skin it up so it is unrecognizable, and you can lock it down so it only runs your App Store, you just can't change the fundamentals. The trouble aliyun/acer ran into a while back was because aliyun actually changed the API, so that it couldn't run android apps. I can't imagine why Ali would have done that, and I can't imagine any reason why Facebook would purposefully cut themselves off from the android ecosystem. I'm sure HTC won't be running afoul of the OHA with this.

I thought Open Handset Alliance partners couldn't sell devices running a true Android fork without losing Google as a partner? How will that come into play here?

hospadam 14y ago

I'm pretty sure they (Facebook) will lose the ability to call this an "Android" phone - and clearly they won't be entitled to the Google Suite of apps. Further than that... I don't think there are any repercussions.

taligent 14y ago
Apart from Maps which is going to be interesting the rest of the Google Suite is easily replaceable.

AnthonyMouse 14y ago

Facebook has been known to partner with Microsoft. It's possible that the phone will be full of Bing. On the other hand, Microsoft is trying to promote their own phone OS, and this phone is clearly DOA if it doesn't run Android apps, but I can't see Microsoft liking the idea of promoting the Android ecosystem. It's kind of funny actually. You could see how it could make sense for Microsoft and Facebook to work together and create some Facebook Phone running WP8, except they each probably think the other is going to fail and don't want to board a sinking ship.

nivla 14y ago
>Facebook has been known to partner with Microsoft. Not very likely, given the fact that Windows Phone has yet to receive an official Facebook app. However, design wise the windows 8 tile architecture would be the perfectly suited for Facebook and Instagram. Its all about how you pull it off, but given how buggy and incomplete my Facebook app on Nexus 7 is, I hardly have any faith in FB. On the side note, they should have partnered with Nokia instead of HTC.

notatoad 14y ago

They can't sell devices that use an android-derived OS that isn't android compatible. As long as the phone could still run arbitrary APKs without modification, they're still within the terms of the OHA, and HTC can continue to sell official android devices. You can skin it up so it is unrecognizable, and you can lock it down so it only runs your App Store, you just can't change the fundamentals. The trouble aliyun/acer ran into a while back was because aliyun actually changed the API, so that it couldn't run android apps. I can't imagine why Ali would have done that, and I can't imagine any reason why Facebook would purposefully cut themselves off from the android ecosystem. I'm sure HTC won't be running afoul of the OHA with this.