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Re:Ask HN: What about a Google buy out of Amazon? by runjake on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @11:28AM (#2895644)
I'm not sure your stance is accurate. Google does allow OEMs to use Android in ways I can't see where it clearly benefits Google's bottom line.

Seems there's been quite a few Android devices that have shipped with much of the Google services stripped out, and replaced with Bing/other vendor apps. This was going on at Verizon Wireless, at least for a while, and is again occurring with a recently announced Android tablet.

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Re:Ask HN: What about a Google buy out of Amazon? by polyfractal on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @02:21PM (#2896316)
Ahh, I was not aware of that. I assumed OEMs built on top of Android (and google functionality), rather than ripping internals out.
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Re:Ask HN: What about a Google buy out of Amazon? by runjake on Thursday August 18, 2011 @12:22PM (#2899818)
It depends on what you define as "on top", but no, stuff like HTC's Sense and Motorola's BLUR make relatively low-level changes/replacements to what is generally considered Android. It's rather sad.
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