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Wasn't this the whole point of Android in the first place? I remember just before, or around the time Apple were releasing the iPhone, Google partnered with a

Wasn't this the whole point of Android in the first place? I remember just before, or around the time Apple were releasing the iPhone, Google partnered with a bunch of other organisations to create the Open Handset Alliance Android was a product of that partnership and developers/companies were free to fork the platform should they so wish, like Amazon did with their flavour of Android. http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html

Oletros 12y ago
> Google partnered with a bunch of other organisations to create the Open Handset Alliance Android was a product of that partnership and developers/companies were free to fork the platform should they so wish No, OHA members never were allowed to fork Android as Amazon did. In fact, the very objective of OHA is use the same Android base with a certification process