Comments on: Does Google Hate Android Hackers?

By: Leave Virginia Alone: On Open-source and Proprietary Threats – GigaOM

Leave Virginia Alone: On Open-source and Proprietary Threats – GigaOM — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:02:40 +0000

[...] Google’s involvement with its own open-source Android operating system could inhibit free development around it going forward. For Google, one of the big benefits that all Android [...]

By: Don’t Toss That G1 Just Yet — It Works With Google Navigation

Don’t Toss That G1 Just Yet — It Works With Google Navigation — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:51:58 +0000

[...] Personally, I feel bad for the original G1 Android handset. Only a year into its existence and it’s getting passed up by younger, thinner models with fewer chins. And then there’s that fabulous looking Google Navigation found on those new-fangled Android 2.0 devices. It’s enough to make a bronze G1 turn green with envy. But wait — is that Google Navigation on a G1 that Engadget Mobile found? It is! Thanks to the clever crowd at XDA Developers — where else? — Google’s newest directional software is running on the G1. I’m curious if Google will put the kibosh on this though — they did it before with a programmer that was repackaging Google closed-source apps. [...]

By: Google-Android Developers Rift Widens

Google-Android Developers Rift Widens — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:45:48 +0000

[...] A group of Android developers has splintered off and created its own community in the wake of last week’s dust-up between Google and Steve Kondik, a developer. Kondik, who’s known as Cyanogen, drew the [...]

By: Google Targets An Android Developer, and Launches Android Developer Challenge | bin-false.org

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:37:30 +0000

[...] useful apps not found in official Android releases, and Google feels rubbed the wrong way by it. Check out more in the GigaOm story. Meanwhile, Google is kicking off round two of its Android Developer Challenge. There are many [...]

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Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:15:49 +0000

By: SDsc0rch

SDsc0rch — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:14:42 +0000

i thought google’s whole “business model” for android was to get ppl to use their OS, meanwhile they would be watching and collecting advertising information and enabling other businesses to use that info and advertise to mobile users

and, pursuant to that end, google would make the overall android experience “better” by seeding it with their excellent supporting apps

now, they come out and stick an eye in the mod community that google themselves encouraged

this ruins all that

what a LOUSY p.r. move!!

this reminds me of that phrase… “jump the shark” – once you do something stupid, there’s no coming back

“don’t do evil” my ass

google walked through a one-way door – there’s no coming back out

boy, i bet google is happy they hired those lawyers now (pfft!)

By: SDsc0rch

SDsc0rch — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:18:49 +0000

cyanogen only mods “google experience” phones – ie, only those phones that ALREADY HAVE THOSE APPS

he’s not changing the apps themselves

what’s the diff??

“don’t be evil” my ass

this is google’s “jump the shark” moment – after this they won’t be viewed the same

By: Google amenaza a Cyanogen | celular top – descargas para celulares, aplicaciones gratis para el celular

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:39:28 +0000

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By: b

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:51:32 +0000

In practicality Google now controls the Android market. If you go down the list of apps they close-sourced you will see that the barrier to entry into the market is too high for an open community to penetrate. Core components like “Market”, “Sync” and others are just few examples.

The question is not the licensing rights they may have but the overall control they exert on the market. On the face of it one might think that Apple has the legal right to control the iPhone market. Not that simple. Both Apple and Google can do so as long as the FCC does not decide that it has a chilling effect on the market. You can disagree with the FCC’s right to interfere, but that’s another matter (the use of regulated airwaves gives the regulator some unusual powers).

Google just gave Apple a big argument to defent their rejection of Google voice.

And if this community of Android fans brings this issue up, Google may realize that it is in their own best LEGAL interests to back off. Other valuable arguments do not impress lawyers. Lawyers only understand legal arguments and once this issue is brought up to their attention they have a fiduciary obligation to inform Google of the exposure with the FCC case.

By: SDsc0rch

SDsc0rch — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:19:55 +0000

google FAIL