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0 pointskerng7y ago0 comments

How about Google just allows OEM to license without preventing them to customize as they see fit best for their customers? Or allow them to build other solutions, not forcing them to do it the Google way?

Its the exact same evil business practicr Microsoft did in the 90s, surprising Google got away with it that long. But also Microsoft wasn't fined until something like 10 years later...

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cageface7y ago

The key difference at that time was that Microsoft had zero real competition and was stifling innovation in the OS and web space. Instead today Android is the only alternative to the most proprietary and richest company in the history of computing, which needs no legal remedies or special favors.

kerngOP7y ago

Android has something like 85-90% marketshare - not different then Windows back in the day.

Google bundling their Search with it is just pushing their own agenda.

sonnyblarney7y ago

"85-90% marketshare" by devices, not by revenue and definitely not profit.

kajecounterhack7y ago

> Android has something like 85-90% marketshare

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-stat...

I was surprised by this figure, but it doesn't look true based on cursory google search?

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cageface7y ago

Yet still most people develop for iOS first and then later port to Android, if at all. It's really not a comparable situation at all.

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datalist7y ago

Zero competition?

OS/2, Linux, Apple, BeOS, etc.

Stifling innovation? How? The "web space" didnt even really exist.

cageface7y ago

The only one of those platforms that even kind of mattered on the desktop at the time was Apple and even they were way more niche than they were today. The web space certainly did matter and it was clear at the time it would come to matter a lot more if Microsoft wasn’t permitted to go on strangling it with IE and ActiveX.

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0 pointskerng7y ago0 comments

Its the exact same evil business practicr Microsoft did in the 90s, surprising Google got away with it that long. But also Microsoft wasn't fined until something like 10 years later...