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>"Without Android, phone makers could shut Google out of mobile phones completely. Chrome and Android help ensure that users can get to Google without interfere
by josteink 12y ago
>"Without Android, phone makers could shut Google out of mobile phones completely. Chrome and Android help ensure that users can get to Google without interference; they protect our users from other companies’ potentially unlevel playing fields."
This quote just rings so incredibly hollow.
I challenge anyone to name one mobile-OS (or OS in general) who has blocked Google servies ever. And no, not being the default is not blocking. First one to do so would be facing widespread consumer outrage, so I doubt anyone is even considering this.
Now turn it around, and ask if Google has ever blocked anything for its competitors (XMPP, apps on WP, non-Chrome browser access to Google-services, blocking non-Chrome browsers with Google-only DRM, non-Google advertising on Android, etc etc).
I think it's pretty obvious which one is need of having its playing field leveled, and it's not Google. Not by a mile.
- DanBC 12y ago> I challenge anyone to name one mobile-OS (or OS in general) who has blocked Google servies ever. Google Chrome on iOS uses a different engine because Apple controls what engine can be used by browsers. That's a restriction placed on Google - although the fact that Google happily uses a different engine on that platform is a pretty big hint that when they want the user data they'll compromise on stuff like this.