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Re:Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Ver... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 07, 2016 @02:23PM (#10860073)
Then why did Google threaten to banish Acer from the OHA if they dared release even a single device running a fork, partnered with a competing search engine?

Google has made it very clear they are opposed to so-called 'incompatible' forks of Android, and that they consider pretty much anything not running Google's proprietary services to be 'incompatible'.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/sep/19/android-ch...

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Re:Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Ver... by JustSomeNobody on Thursday January 07, 2016 @02:53PM (#10860257)
> And your app store contains Android apps (including pirated Google apps).

I think THIS was the issue, not the forked Android.

Amazon has a forked Android. Cyanogen has one.

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Re:Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Ver... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 07, 2016 @03:05PM (#10860343)
Acer isn't responsible for what Aliyun puts in it's app store, and that's NOT the issue, Google made clear in their response: Google doesn't allow OHA members (companies allowed to ship the Play Store) to sell any devices with forks. Amazon isn't an OHA member. Cyanogen may have something interesting going on, because AFAIK they're compliant with whatever OHA terms they currently have agreed to.
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