This Chinese article discusses how Google has gradually improved core #Android apps but made them closed-source, in order to differentiate the Google-authorised Android experience from Google-unauthorised Android experience that Amazon and many Chinese industry players are offering. It also explains how Samsung Mobile and key Android ecosystem participants are bound to pay Google royalty fees on #Android and how they prepare for their Plan B by offering their own equivalent duplicates of core apps and ecosystem. Highly recommended this article to those who still believe Google is embracing open-source! :)
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 05:03:42 +0000