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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 12:50 AM EDT |
And this is the point that is difficult for some folks to accept:
the operating environment of most mobile devices consists of
the open source Android OS plus a bunch of proprietary binaries.
Those binaries may be "secret" to the hardware maker, or
Google, or the phone company, or any combination of them.
It is possible to use any browser to go to play.google.com,
and download any (all?) of the google apps. It'll depend on
the build of your rom whether they actually work.
Note that there exist third party packages of Google apps
built to run on specified platforms, complete with the necessary
magic sauce for the OS.
Note also that at least HTC, ZTE, and Huawei sell phones in the
world wide market with the full Google enchilada. Inside China
they sell the same hardware with the same version Android
and not a whiff of Google.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 12:30 PM EDT |
Then I'm curious what's found here. Is
that a third party creation of Google Apps? Apps listed as installed
are:
Genie Widget
Gmail
Google
Gallery3D
Google Maps (+Streetview)
Google Play
Magazines
Google Play Music
Google Play Store
Google
TTS
Quick Search
Talk
Voice
Voice
Search
YouTube
It does have the Apache license
identified however makes a disclaimer that the apps are "found on the net". So
I think I'd like to find an actual Google source for the apps. It does appear
Google itself is pointing to that source because I got there from Code.Google.Com. I
can't be positive that's actually an official Google site, so I'll have to
research that.
That link does make clear that the apps are "provided to
restore the applications which come on devices which are licensed to have
Google's proprietary code".
The actual licensing is unclear so I've got
more research to do in order to dig that up.
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