Report: Acer Nukes Smartphone Launch Due to Google Threat

[rohitbaran]

[citation][nom]samwelaye[/nom]Alibaba is saying Google told Acer not to do it. Acer has not officially said it and neither has Google, so for all we know there is more behind this.[/citation]
You actually think that Google will say that even if they did that?

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]deadlockedworld[/nom]I'm pretty sure Intel lost some big lawsuits for exactly this.[/citation]

intel threatened to take away bulk rates from oems who even touched amd when amd was running circles around intel.

google gives android for free...

there is a difference between the two

google was pulling help, intel was flexing a monopoly muscle.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]belardo[/nom]Look at the low-end junk coming out NEW from China with Android 2.x (some even with 1.6!)[/citation]
Yet the upcoming Oppo is faster than any other Android phone currently on sale, with a screen resolution higher than any other smartphone and it will come with Android 4.1.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]dalethepcman[/nom]And they are packaging their OS with android's App store and other android APK's, which is against Google's TOS. This is why Cyanogen had to remove it from their builds, and the only reason Amazon isn't in hot water for the fire.[/citation]
The Aliyun OS doesn't come with Google Play. It comes with a App Store that uses Android APK, which basically is a JAR archive. So Google's TOS hasn't been broken in any way.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]shloader[/nom]AMD and Intel were on rather friendly terms back then. They both brought innovations to the x86 architecture and part of the reason they mutually agreed to cross liscense and keep the CPU models named strictly in numbers. Of course that all changed when Pentium hit the scene.As for this Aliyun OS I think Google's fustration with it is reasonable. Even if it isn't a total clone of Andriod, ummm.... close enough. I mean, running android APK files? Still an obvious effort to piggyback on the success of Andriod. If google had any conversation with Acer I'm sure they pointed that out and told them that they can expect an end of technical support of the real Android OS if they go down this path. That's as it should be. Any assistance from Google toward Acer could potentially be spun around to make a better Aliyun phone running Google apps.[/citation]
The APK format is a open format, should Linux distro developers feel frustrated for Google using their Kernel?

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]The APK format is a open format, should Linux distro developers feel frustrated for Google using their Kernel?[/citation]

The format is open, what Google did with it was not. Same for Red Hat. Linux is open; there's Red Hat is Linux, yet you can bet that you'd get sued if you tried stealing Red Hat's code that isn't part of the open source kernel.

 

[kronos_cornelius]

Android is free to Licence. So Google is basically paying man-hours to Acer to help it adopt Android. In other words, Google was is paying Acer to learn how to make better devices. If I was doing that, I would expect some reciprocity.

Microsoft, on the other hand, charges license, and any more technical knowledge comes at a price.
Apples shares nothing at any price... period.

You tell me who is evil.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]kronos_cornelius[/nom]Android is free to Licence. So Google is basically paying man-hours to Acer to help it adopt Android. In other words, Google was is paying Acer to learn how to make better devices. If I was doing that, I would expect some reciprocity.Microsoft, on the other hand, charges license, and any more technical knowledge comes at a price.Apples shares nothing at any price... period.You tell me who is the most evil.[/citation]

I fixed it for you 😉

Honestly though, it's hard to argue against logic like that. Apple is beyond greedy and MS, well, MS is MS. They kinda just lumber arround where they see the money, granted usually not grudgingly and ruthlessly like Apple has been.

 

[Belardo]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]Yet the upcoming Oppo is faster than any other Android phone currently on sale, with a screen resolution higher than any other smartphone and it will come with Android 4.1.[/citation]
Did I specify Oppo? Much of the stuff made in China is low-grade crap. Not just electronics.