What Google is ACTUALLY Mad About and Why Cyanogen received a Cease and Desist notice from Google because of the inclusion of “certain closed source apps” in his ROM. This actually makes sense as to why if you look into it.
These apps are not licensed to Cyanogen for redistribution, so Google can definitely stop him from giving them out technically. But it isn’t because he is distributing any apps, it’s because of releasing certain apps that are not officially out yet. The Market is the most obvious of these apps. Since the new market app Cyanogen released is the not yet finished app that was leaked from within Google. Since this version is not yet finalized and most likely still have bugs in it, Google is probably worried that issues like multiple charges on customers credit cards could result, etc. and Google definitely doesn’t want to deal with that. Imagine how big of task that would be to clean up if it got out of hand? So basically Google, is not against rooting. They are simply trying to stop an issue from happening by Cyanogen releasing apps that have control over a lof of people’s credit cards, from happening. The issue though is that Google can’t just tell Cyanogen to take out the unreleased Market app and continue on with his work. The reason is that if they tell him to take out that one app and not the rest, it would legally give him the right to distribute the other apps from now on (since they didn’t stop him, he then has the right to do so. Confusing, right?) So Google has to say, stop entirely. I don’t think Google will now all of a sudden start issuing cease and desists to all of the developers (so long as they dont include the new Market app before it is finalized), but Cyanogen may be stuck because of the reasoning above. There has to be a way around this, Google? Bottom line though guys, this is NOT about rooting. So feel free to root away and enjoy (Google loves the rooting, it makes their phones more appealing and Android is an Open source platform, it’s just that Market app they don’t want you messing with…) Update: GOOGLE RELEASES A STATEMENT! Officially APPROVES of custom Android builds! Google goes on to talk about how GMail, Market, and Maps are their own developed software for Android (as opposed to apps that are normally included with Android) and they make money off them just like any other developer would if they made an app for the Market. Google makes money by selling the Google Experience (all of these apps combined) to manufacturers, even though the Android OS is free (sneaky if you think about it). So they don’t want people to be able to get them for free. The issue I have with this explanation is that Cyanogen was making ROMs for devices that already have the Google Experience logo on them so what are they losing? Again think this goes back to the unofficial release of the Market… AND AGAIN, THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU ROOTING OR USING CUSTOM ROMS SO FEEL FREE TO CONTINUE! ===> ayoo ngulik lagiiiii, bobo dulu akh udah bisa pejamkan mata dengan tenang ~...@herodroid --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Google Groups "Indonesian Android Community [id-android]" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To request to subscribe to this group, please visit the following page: http://groups.google.com/group/id-android/subscribe?hl=en-GB To send a message to the owner, visit the following page: http://groups.google.com/group/id-android/post?sendowner=1&hl=en-GB or [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/id-android?hl=en?hl=en-GB To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Indonesian Android Community on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=112207700729 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
