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Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica)Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica)Posted Aug 19, 2011 23:36 UTC (Fri) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)In reply to: Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) by xxiao Parent article: Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) >You don't compete with your customers. Period. Unless you are indifferent about whether they continue as customers, of course. Two or three years down the road if this becomes a real problem, HTC, Samsung et al can switch to a different mobile operating system, or fork Android if necessary.
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Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) Posted Aug 19, 2011 23:54 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
And the whole discussion about Google controlling vendors through Android was exhausted when Stephen Elop claimed that Nokia wouldn't be able to use Android, but he was being economical with the truth: Google probably don't want vendors using the Android brand if they then bundle various non-Google applications and services (Ovi Maps and the like), or at least the brand is where the control is applied by Google.
But there should be no issue in just forking Android, calling it something else, and using whatever services you like. The laughable thing about such claims is that Apple devices probably rely on Google for services as heavily as the average Android handset, and yet Apple isn't complaining, although they surely want to get people onto Apple services as soon as possible.
Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) Posted Aug 20, 2011 2:51 UTC (Sat) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]
There seems to be quite a degree of flexibility. I have an HTC Android phone; it has HTC's 'Sense' UI, which looks a lot like it does on HTC's Windows phones, and it has a non-Google Maps navigation app pre-installed, and it's own non-Gmail mail client. It still passes muster enough to also have access to all the Google goodies, and the marketplace.
Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) Posted Aug 20, 2011 0:04 UTC (Sat) by ras (subscriber, #33059) [Link] Maybe they could buy a perfectly fine mobile phone OS from Nokia. I hear they have one they aren't using.
Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) Posted Aug 20, 2011 9:09 UTC (Sat) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link]
I hear they have two of them. :)
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