Screen shots indicate otherwise friend..Chiana Android, dopod G2 does have Google appps
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:45 PM, focuser <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is an old but thoughtful article: > > http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/what-google-mus.html > > > > There's just one problem: The carriers. A big part of the iPhone's > success is due to Apple's clout, which enabled it, in effect, to tell AT&T > to sit down and shut up about this or that feature requirement. Once other > carriers saw the iPhone's success in the United States, they wanted in on > that action, so Apple was able to dictate terms globally, just as it had a > year before in the U.S. > > > That's why I predict that Android will soon have as many different > flavors as there are carriers. Some carriers will customize it so that their > phones can't install any applications other than the ones they authorize. > Some will modify the operating system to work with one of their custom > services or another. Some will no doubt cripple it, removing features that > they consider threatening to their own businesses (like the ability to run > VoIP apps). > > > And that's their right. Because Android uses the Apache license, anyone > is free to take it and customize it to their heart's content, even if such > customizations are appalling to the open source community. (There's also no > requirement that customizations be themselves open-sourced for the benefit > of the whole Android community.) > > >In short order, "Android" will become meaningless to consumers, and most > carriers won't even advertise the fact that their phones use the operating > system. Instead, they'll advertise their phones' features, as they always > have, and emphasize the benefits of those features to the users. > > This is exactly what's happening in the HTC Magic that will be sold > in China soon. (http://tinyurl.com/d62mzt) There seems no Gmail, > Gtalk or other google branded apps, and not a word about "Android", > even "Google". > > And it has been said that Google apps are removed from the phone > distributed by Orange in France....http://androidforums.com/t-mobile- > g1/4221-g1-france-orange-no-google-apps.html<http://androidforums.com/t-mobile-%0Ag1/4221-g1-france-orange-no-google-apps.html> > > Hope Google has heard about voices like this and is taking some action > on it.... > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
