Tivoization of gphones

Tivoization of gphones

Posted Sep 26, 2008 22:11 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: That's simple... by khim
Parent article: Android Walks Out of the Mist (Linux Journal)

they very specifically chosen the licenses which allow TiVoization. And that's because carriers want that. Google does not care.

I think Google cares. Remember that Google's interest in Android is advertising by Google on gphones.

First, it wants gphones in as many hands as possible. So if Google can leverage legions of engineers outside of Google to make the device work on all carriers, in all countries, and do all the popular things, that furthers that goal. Tivoization works against that.

And then from the other side, Google wants to make sure all gphones are somewhat identical so that its advertising works on all of them. Tivoization works toward that.

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