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I'm not sure what I said that incited such passion in your answer. I did not ask anybody to copy it for me personally, I did not even suggest anything about whe
by zmmmmm 12y ago
I'm not sure what I said that incited such passion in your answer. I did not ask anybody to copy it for me personally, I did not even suggest anything about whether such a project is a free or commercial enterprise. I didn't suggest whether I think this is a good thing or a bad thing. You seem to have picked up on some imaginary points you think I was making without any basis in my actual comment.
What I am suggesting is that there are coalition of interests - Android manufacturers that share the situation of being outside of Google's ecosystem. All these manufacturers want apps, and the apps are all on Google Play. They therefore have a very strong interest in having those apps run without modification on their own platforms which is achievable only if someone clones the Google APIs. It seems to me only a matter of time before the incentive to create this gets high enough that someone actually does it.
- rahimnathwani 12y agoIt seems to me only a matter of time before the incentive to create this gets high enough that someone actually does it. Yes, but it might be just another big company which does it, and in an 'all or nothing' fashion. In that case you would have a choice (Google or XBigCorp), but I'm guessing you really want to be able to mix and match, and have different parts of the Play APIs served by different apps/daemons/companies/whatever.
- ithkuil 12y agoPeople have done this stuff for free. GNU/Whatever/Linux itself is a clone of some existing APIs. Wine, reactos, while being far from complete, attacked a far larger API and also a big moving target. It's doable. By amateurs and professionals with passion and spare time.
- ithkuil 12y agohttps://github.com/microg https://github.com/microg