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▒ Android 4.3 @ Google neXus4™ ▒
On Oct 21, 2013 7:29 PM, "hanafi f" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Diskusi gak menarik, kalau ujungnya : jangan pake.
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> On 21 Oct 2013 19:22, "Moamer Khadafi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> IMHO, Kalaulah semua di closed, kan bisa pake app pihak lain bukan?
>>
>> Masalah data di collect, sekali lagi bisa di opt out alias bisa
>> dimatikan. Kalau gak mau alamat rumah n kantor ketahuan Google ya jangan
>> dimasukkan datanya. Kalau gak mau email dibaca Google ya jangan pake Gmail.
>>
>> ▒ Android 4.3 @ Google neXus4™ ▒
>> On Oct 21, 2013 7:15 PM, "Abdul Hadi G" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Kalau sy baca sekilas sih, awalnya android itu open source (AOSP) tapi
>>> satu persatu aplikasinya "berevolusi" jadi propetary (close system) milik
>>> google seperti calendar, keyboard, google search, location, sms dan mms yg
>>> nantinya diintegrasikan ke hangout dll...  yg dikhawatirkan, nantinya semua
>>> system di android ujung2nya close system jg. Yg saya takutkan memang,
>>> google memang berpotensi sekali mengumpulkan data2 pengguna android, dari
>>> nama, alamat, lokasi kita saat ini, belum lagi data cc di playstore dll
>>> (sekarang aja sdh keliatan kan dari fitur google now dan google maps, kita
>>> bisa masukkan lokasi rumah dan kantor?).
>>>
>>> Mungkin ini jg yg menjawab kenapa Mr.Scmidth ditertawakan audience
>>> beberapa waktu lalu ttg keamanan android.
>>>
>>> Salam,
>>> Hadi G.
>>> On Oct 21, 2013 7:04 PM, "Moamer Khadafi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sama aja kaya developer yg cuma mau bikin app untuk Android versi
>>>> tertentu, atau misal game yg eksklusif tegra.
>>>>
>>>> Menurut saya sih, itu hak nya Google. Tinggal pake penggantinya kalau
>>>> gak mau pake gapps. Beres
>>>>
>>>> ▒ Android 4.3 @ Google neXus4™ ▒
>>>> On Oct 21, 2013 6:03 PM, "hanafi f" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Kasus Acer + Kindle-nya Amazon,
>>>>> betapa *berkuasanya* google
>>>>>
>>>>> *********
>>>>> ....
>>>>>
>>>>> Acer was bit by this requirement when it tried to build devices that
>>>>> ran Alibaba's Aliyun OS in China. Aliyun is an Android fork, and when
>>>>> Google got wind of it, Acer was told to shut the project down or lose its
>>>>> access to Google apps. Google even made a public blog post about it:
>>>>>
>>>>> While Android remains free for anyone to use as they would like, only
>>>>> Android compatible devices benefit from the full Android ecosystem. By
>>>>> joining the Open Handset Alliance, each member contributes to and builds
>>>>> one Android platform—not a bunch of incompatible versions
>>>>>
>>>>> ....
>>>>> *********
>>>>>
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>>>>> On 21 Oct 2013 17:19, "Moamer Khadafi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Belum sempat baca seluruhnya, tapi bukankah kalau gak dipakem Google
>>>>>> fragmentasi makin menjadi jadi?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ▒ Android 4.3 @ Google neXus4™ ▒
>>>>>> On Oct 21, 2013 4:02 PM, "hanafi f" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Errrr...
>>>>>> Jadi kepikiran....
>>>>>> Pantes samsung penuh *bloatware*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Apa ini jangan2 alasan *Hugo* pindah ke xiaomi?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Google = Evil?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *******************
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/
>>>>>> *******************
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Six years ago, in November 2007, the Android Open Source Project
>>>>>> (AOSP) was announced. The original iPhone came out just a few months
>>>>>> earlier, capturing people's imaginations and ushering in the modern
>>>>>> smartphone era. While Google was an app partner for the original iPhone, 
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> could see what a future of unchecked iPhone competition would be like. 
>>>>>> Vic
>>>>>> Gundotra, recalling Andy Rubin's initial pitch for Android, stated:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     He argued that if Google did not act, we faced a Draconian
>>>>>> future, a future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier 
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> be our only choice.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Google was terrified that Apple would end up ruling the mobile space.
>>>>>> So, to help in the fight against the iPhone at a time when Google had no
>>>>>> mobile foothold whatsoever, Android was launched as an open source 
>>>>>> project.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In that era, Google had nothing, so any adoption—any shred of market
>>>>>> share—was welcome. Google decided to give Android away for free and use 
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> as a trojan horse for Google services. The thinking went that if Google
>>>>>> Search was one day locked out of the iPhone, people would stop using 
>>>>>> Google
>>>>>> Search on the desktop. Android was the "moat" around the Google Search
>>>>>> "castle"—it would exist to protect Google's online properties in the 
>>>>>> mobile
>>>>>> world.
>>>>>> Enlarge / Android's rocketing market share
>>>>>> Smartmo / Ron Amadeo
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Today, things are a little different. Android went from zero percent
>>>>>> of the smartphone market to owning nearly 80 percent of it. Android has
>>>>>> arguably won the smartphone wars, but "Android winning" and "Google
>>>>>> winning" are not necessarily the same thing. Since Android is open 
>>>>>> source,
>>>>>> it doesn't really "belong" to Google. Anyone is free to take it, clone 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> source, and create their own fork or alternate version.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As we've seen with the struggles of Windows Phone and Blackberry 10,
>>>>>> app selection is everything in the mobile market, and Android's massive
>>>>>> install base means it has a ton of apps. If a company forks Android, the 
>>>>>> OS
>>>>>> will already be compatible with millions of apps; a company just needs to
>>>>>> build its own app store and get everything uploaded. In theory, you'd 
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> a non-Google OS with a ton of apps, virtually overnight. If a company 
>>>>>> other
>>>>>> than Google can come up with a way to make Android better than it is now,
>>>>>> it would be able to build a serious competitor and possibly threaten
>>>>>> Google's smartphone dominance. This is the biggest danger to Google's
>>>>>> current position: a successful, alternative Android distribution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And a few companies are taking a swing at separating Google from
>>>>>> Android. The most successful, high-profile alternative version of Android
>>>>>> is Amazon's Kindle Fire. Amazon takes AOSP, skips all the usual Google
>>>>>> add-ons, and provides its own app store, content stores, browser, cloud
>>>>>> storage, and e-mail. The entire country of China skips the Google part of
>>>>>> Android, too. Most Google services are banned, so the only option there 
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> an alternate version. In both of these cases, Google's Android code is
>>>>>> used, and it gets nothing for it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's easy to give something away when you're in last place with zero
>>>>>> marketshare, precisely where Android started. When you're in first place
>>>>>> though, it's a little harder to be so open and welcoming. Android has 
>>>>>> gone
>>>>>> from being the thing that protects Google to being something worth
>>>>>> protecting in its own right. Mobile is the future of the Internet, and
>>>>>> controlling the world's largest mobile platform has tons of benefits. At
>>>>>> this point, it's too difficult to stuff the open source genie back into 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> bottle, which begs the question: how do you control an open source 
>>>>>> project?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Google has always given itself some protection against alternative
>>>>>> versions of Android. What many people think of as "Android" actually 
>>>>>> falls
>>>>>> into two categories: the open parts from the Android Open Source Project
>>>>>> (AOSP), which are the foundation of Android, and the closed source parts,
>>>>>> which are all the Google-branded apps. While Google will never go the
>>>>>> entire way and completely close Android, the company seems to be doing
>>>>>> everything it can to give itself leverage over the existing open source
>>>>>> project. And the company's main method here is to bring more and more 
>>>>>> apps
>>>>>> under the closed source "Google" umbrella.
>>>>>> Closed source creep
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There have always been closed source Google apps. Originally, the
>>>>>> group consisted mostly of clients for Google's online services, like 
>>>>>> Gmail,
>>>>>> Maps, Talk, and YouTube. When Android had no market share, Google was
>>>>>> comfortable keeping just these apps and building the rest of Android as 
>>>>>> an
>>>>>> open source project. Since Android has become a mobile powerhouse though,
>>>>>> Google has decided it needs more control over the public source code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For some of these apps, there might still be an AOSP equivalent, but
>>>>>> as soon as the proprietary version was launched, all work on the AOSP
>>>>>> version was stopped. Less open source code means more work for Google's
>>>>>> competitors. While you can't kill an open source app, you can turn it 
>>>>>> into
>>>>>> abandonware by moving all continuing development to a closed source 
>>>>>> model.
>>>>>> Just about any time Google rebrands an app or releases a new piece of
>>>>>> Android onto the Play Store, it's a sign that the source has been closed
>>>>>> and the AOSP version is dead.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Search*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We'll start with the Search app, which is an excellent example of
>>>>>> what happens when Google duplicates AOSP functionality.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In August 2010, Google launched Voice Actions. With it, the company
>>>>>> introduced "Google Search" into the (then) Android Market. These were the
>>>>>> days of Froyo. The above picture shows the latest version of AOSP Search
>>>>>> and Google Search running on Android 4.3. As you can see, AOSP Search is
>>>>>> still stuck in the days of Froyo (Android 2.2). Once Google had its 
>>>>>> closed
>>>>>> source app up and running, it immediately abandoned the open source
>>>>>> version. The Google version has search by voice, audio search,
>>>>>> text-to-speech, an answer service, and it contains Google Now, the
>>>>>> company's predictive assistant feature. The AOSP version can do Web and
>>>>>> local searches and... that's it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Music*
>>>>>> *Calendar*
>>>>>> *Keyboard*
>>>>>> *Gallery/Camera*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ....
>>>>>> Locking-in manufacturers
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While Google is out to devalue the open source codebase as much as
>>>>>> possible, controlling the app side of the equation isn't the company's 
>>>>>> only
>>>>>> power play.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If a company does ever manage to fork AOSP, clone the Google apps,
>>>>>> and create a viable competitor to Google's Android, it's going to have a
>>>>>> hard time getting anyone to build a device for it. In an open market, it
>>>>>> would be as easy as calling up an Android OEM and convincing them to
>>>>>> switch, but Google is out to make life a little more difficult than that.
>>>>>> Google's real power in mobile comes from control of the Google 
>>>>>> apps—mainly
>>>>>> Gmail, Maps, Google Now, Hangouts, YouTube, and the Play Store. These are
>>>>>> Android's killer apps, and the big (and small) manufacturers want these
>>>>>> apps on their phones. Since these apps are not open source, they need to 
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> licensed from Google. It is at this point that you start picturing a 
>>>>>> scene
>>>>>> out of The Godfather, because these apps aren't going to come without 
>>>>>> some
>>>>>> requirements attached.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While it might not be an official requirement, being granted a Google
>>>>>> apps license will go a whole lot easier if you join the Open Handset
>>>>>> Alliance. The OHA is a group of companies committed to Android—Google's
>>>>>> Android—and members are contractually prohibited from building non-Google
>>>>>> approved devices. That's right, joining the OHA requires a company to 
>>>>>> sign
>>>>>> its life away and promise to not build a device that runs a competing
>>>>>> Android fork.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Acer was bit by this requirement when it tried to build devices that
>>>>>> ran Alibaba's Aliyun OS in China. Aliyun is an Android fork, and when
>>>>>> Google got wind of it, Acer was told to shut the project down or lose its
>>>>>> access to Google apps. Google even made a public blog post about it:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While Android remains free for anyone to use as they would like, only
>>>>>> Android compatible devices benefit from the full Android ecosystem. By
>>>>>> joining the Open Handset Alliance, each member contributes to and builds
>>>>>> one Android platform—not a bunch of incompatible versions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This makes life extremely difficult for the only company brazen
>>>>>> enough to sell an Android fork in the west: Amazon. Since the Kindle OS
>>>>>> counts as an incompatible version of Android, no major OEM is allowed to
>>>>>> produce the Kindle Fire for Amazon. So when Amazon goes shopping for a
>>>>>> manufacturer for its next tablet, it has to immediately cross Acer, Asus,
>>>>>> Dell, Foxconn, Fujitsu, HTC, Huawei, Kyocera, Lenovo, LG, Motorola, NEC,
>>>>>> Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba, and ZTE off the list. Currently, Amazon
>>>>>> contracts Kindle manufacturing out to Quanta Computer, a company 
>>>>>> primarily
>>>>>> known for making laptops. Amazon probably doesn't have many other 
>>>>>> choices.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For OEMs, this means they aren't allowed to slowly transition from
>>>>>> Google's Android to a fork. The second they ship one device that runs a
>>>>>> competing fork, they are given the kiss of death and booted out of the
>>>>>> Android family—it must be a clean break. This, by design, makes switching
>>>>>> to forked Android a terrifying prospect to any established Android OEM. 
>>>>>> You
>>>>>> must jump off the Google cliff, and there's no going back.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any OEM hoping to license Google Apps will need to pass Google's
>>>>>> "compatibility" tests in order to be eligible. Compatibility ensures that
>>>>>> all the apps in the Play Store will run on your device. And to Google,
>>>>>> "compatibility" is also a fluid concept that an Android engineer once
>>>>>> internally described as "a club to make [OEMs] do what we want." While
>>>>>> Google now has automated tools that will test your device's
>>>>>> "compatibility," getting a Google apps license still requires a company 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> privately e-mail Google and "kiss the ring" so to speak. Most of this is
>>>>>> done through backroom agreements and secret contracts, so the majority of
>>>>>> the information we have comes from public spats and/or lawsuits between
>>>>>> Google and potential Android deserters (see: Acer).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *******************
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Next....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/
>>>>>>
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