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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 01:34 AM EDT |
But wait, they did that and some company was found guilty.
I never did hear what happened to them ...
It's all very well us here on GL nodding wisely and stroking our beards,
Android is open source, here's all these no-cost toolboxes on the
app market to help fine tune your device. I'm picking the bottom
two thirds of users will always be trapped thru their own inertia
with whatever the salesdroid lumped them with. Still, that's a
better figure than the 90% who were stuck with that other
company's Desktop System.
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| Authored by: matth on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 08:06 AM EDT |
Most of that actually happened, but many people have work to do rather
than
greed to serve. I am one. We never liked or trusted Windows so we built a
better operating system, unconstrained by proprietary ownership.
That seemed
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| Authored by: JonCB on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 04:21 PM EDT |
Note however that it's not google that sets the default
browser... it is in fact the phone manufacturer.
This is easily evidenced by the presence of both Bing and
that Chinese mob as default search engine in a couple of
models of android phone. (From memory the Bing default one
was even certified as Android proper)
Now if Google refused to certify phones without google
search as default or required a payment unless you used
google search as default there'd be more of an argument here
but to my knowledge, they don't.
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| Authored by: JonCB on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 04:29 PM EDT |
| As support of this point, This
article gives a phone (the Samsung
Continuum I-400) which
uses Bing as the default search. A quick look at the
manual
shows that it has the Android Market app installed, which
means the
phone is certified by Google (Android Market access
is the largest carrot of
the certification process).
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- Past tense? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 04:48 PM EDT
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