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Re:Google and Alibaba Continue Warring Over Acer Phone by tedivm on Sunday September 16, 2012 @01:15PM (#4529610)
The pirated app thing was brought up after the fact, and really has nothing to do with the original issue- that google is strong arming a company to prevent a competing OS from being released.

Besides, claiming that Alibabi supports piracy because there are pirated apps in their store is the same as saying Google supports malware because their stores have sold infected apps.

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Re:Google and Alibaba Continue Warring Over Acer Phone by will_work4tears on Sunday September 16, 2012 @01:31PM (#4529662)
That's not what I got. My understanding of the situation was that Google is saying Alibaba can't claim to be Android compatible if they are not. Alibaba is saying they are claiming no such thing, but their marketplace seems to not reflect that claim.

They aren't trying to prevent a competing OS at all.

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Re:Google and Alibaba Continue Warring Over Acer Phone by lucian1900 on Monday September 17, 2012 @06:40AM (#4531954)
But since Alibaba themselves put the pirated google apps on their store, I'd say that's quite a different situation than Google Play having malware.
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