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this "Google offers the Android codebase for free download, but this is only part of the software needed to make a phone viable" is simply false. You have ev
by ABS 13y ago
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"Google offers the Android codebase for free download, but this is only part of the software needed to make a phone viable"
is simply false. You have everything needed for a "phone" and even for a "smartphone", you simply miss google services that might (West in particular) or might not (East in particular) be perceived as a must have by consumer.
See for example all the android-based phone that ship with alternative markets, maps and similar services.
- Zigurd 13y agoNobody, not even Oppo with their CyanogenMod-based Android, is selling an Android product in developed-world markets without Google Play and the rest of Google's app suite. The real alternative is expensive: Build your own ecosystem, as Amazon has.
- ABS 13y agoindeed but that still doesn't make it true that you don't have a viable "phone" with aosp
- richardwhiuk 13y agoYou seem to have come up with the refutation to your claim, but then ignored it anyway. The Kindle Fire [1] does run Android and does not have the Play Store - it has the Amazon app store instead. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle_Fire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle_Fire
- guelo 13y agoHe said "The real alternative is expensive: Build your own ecosystem, as Amazon has."
- zentiggr 13y agoSure - the 'smaller-brand' ICS tablet I have got its apps from the Amazon App Store almost exclusively, with a few sideloads for good measure. Figured out how to get Play services on to it, and have the best _and_ worst of two worlds :) ("Figured out how to" is its own death-knell, I know, in some circles. Not that clueless.)