News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Amazon reportedly working on proper Android ‘Ice’ smartphones with Google’s apps. Parent comment

Re:Amazon reportedly working on proper Android ‘Ice’ smartph... by gondo on Monday June 05, 2017 @11:16AM (#14488183)
if it was true, why didn't Amazon sue Google?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon reportedly working on proper Android ‘Ice’ smartph... by threeseed on Monday June 05, 2017 @12:02PM (#14488610)
Because look what happened with Microsoft. You are talking about a multi decade long process that will go to trial. This sort of thing distracts companies and often ends up killing them.

I don't know about the merits here but I can understand why Amazon would rather leave it up to governments.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon reportedly working on proper Android ‘Ice’ smartph... by gondo on Monday June 05, 2017 @01:19PM (#14489364)
what happened with Microsoft? i know what happened with Oracle when they sued Google about java in android. nothing. except they lost because they were wrong.
[ Parent | on HN ]