This is one of the stupidest moves I've seen a company do in a while. First, wait til an organic community developer group forms around your product, wait til they release improved version of your free OS, let them hype it to death for you... then C&D them out of existence until they all go tinker with Maemo or Linmo (or iPhone or Web OS) devices.
It doesn't matter if Google, Inc are legally correct, this is a boneheaded business decision. -Josh On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM, schwiz <[email protected]> wrote: > > So everytime I have seen someone ask about apps2sd for android, the > response has been something along the lines of 'well if you don't like > the space on the phone modify it yourself if its that easy' Someone > takes this to heart and does it for free for thousands of users who > are already supporting google and you shut them down? Now we have to > pick between having space for apps on our phone -OR- not having the > marketplace on our phone anymore so it doesn't even matter? I highly > suggest if you are going to C&D cyanogen to give users who have PAID > for a 'powered by google' android device to backup their google apps > that they paid for. We have paid for the software we should be > entitled to use it with any build of android we choose. Otherwise, > you might want to try taking user requests a little more seriously. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
