Re:Google is defragging Android
by charleslmunger on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @03:05AM
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Google also devotes energy to search, email, robot cars, internet balloons... the idea that having a closed source set of APIs for google products is stealing resources away from android is specious.
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Re:Google is defragging Android
by luke-stanley on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @07:24AM
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The point is that more energy being put on closed source Android development rather. Yes, Google has a lot of money but money is not it's only resource. Unnecessary projects have been closed off like Google Labs, Reader etc etc.
Google has a limited range of focus, Google's Android developers have a limited range of focus and Google would seek to guard them against unsupported distribution systems (open source ones). Maybe Google will open source more?