Re:Google's Answer to EU Antitrust Complaints on Android
by deelowe on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @10:32AM
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You do realize though, there's an intentional segregation there. Android is not the play store or any of those apps. Not at this point. Android is that OS itself and just the OS. If antitrust is an issue, then the case needs to be made against the distribution of apps that require licensing (google's apps and the store), not against android itself, which is fairly unrestricted.
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Re:Google's Answer to EU Antitrust Complaints on Android
by scholia on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @03:06PM
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> Android is that OS itself and just the OS.
Actually, Android is a Google trademark and you have to do what Google says if you want to use it.
Amazon uses AOSP but it can't call it Android.
This makes sense. Anyone could take AOSP and make it incompatible with Android (TM). If they could call it Android, that would mislead consumers.
The problem is that if you ship a single Android phone with Play etc, you are not allowed to ship any phones based on AOSP. In fact, Google just made Acer cancel the launch of an AOSP phone aimed at the Chinese market because it is already shipping genuine Android (TM).
This is not "fairly unrestricted" ;-)