Re:Google's Android Generates $31B Revenue, Oracle Says
by bryanlarsen on Thursday January 21, 2016 @10:05PM
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Android is commercially licensed software. Android AOSP is free, but Android bundled together with the Play store and all the Google apps is very definitely not free.
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Re:Google's Android Generates $31B Revenue, Oracle Says
by sangnoir on Friday January 22, 2016 @04:34AM
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> Play store and all the Google apps is very definitely not free.
You keep repeating this, yet all the public knowledge on this subject (leaked docs) suggests that Google apps are free as in beer. Not only are they free, but OEMs are willing to jump hoops (contract with Google) get the $0 Google apps. Do you have any sources that say Google sells it's apps to OEMs?
Re:Google's Android Generates $31B Revenue, Oracle Says
by stonemetal on Friday January 22, 2016 @08:10AM
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>but OEMs are willing to jump hoops (contract with Google) get the $0
So OEMs pay Google for contracts and the only reason to get these contracts is to get access to the apps, but the apps are free? Sounds like paying Google for the apps.
Re:Google's Android Generates $31B Revenue, Oracle Says
by sangnoir on Friday January 22, 2016 @11:03AM
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Do you have any citations (even semi-official) that support the idea that OEMs pay Google for the contracts? The leaked OEM contracts[1] did not support your hypothesis (to be fair, they do not discount it either).
1. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/new-android-oem-licen...