Microsoft stops Google being used for Cortana searches

Re:Microsoft stops Google being used for Cortana searches by tracker1 on Friday April 29, 2016 @02:43PM (#11597835)

A lot of that is the binary drivers for essential phone components... that said, Cyanogenmod is pretty close to "stock" (no google apps) and if you're on a rooted phone with a first or third party build of Cyanogenmod, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

Unfortunately, it's really the chipset builders and the lack of UEFI/BIOS or something similar in ARM (and other non-x86 mobile platforms) that locks it out even further.

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Re:Microsoft stops Google being used for Cortana searches by kuschku on Saturday April 30, 2016 @05:26AM (#11601044)

Yes, but compiling 40GB of Android source myself every time I want to change things is quite annoying.

And having to write my own smartlock provider as a system app isn't great either.

It'd be great if in addition to everything being AOSP, they'd also allow changing more at runtime.

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Re:Microsoft stops Google being used for Cortana searches by tracker1 on Monday May 02, 2016 @01:41AM (#11609385)

So, you can't create a user plugable interface and submit the changes upstream? Who knows, they might even be accepted.

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