Memangnya sebelumnya siapa penguasa ekosistem android? Bukannya memang
google dari dulu? :D

Dibedakan ya, ranah mobile sama Android ekosistem :)


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 7:22 PM, hanafi f <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ketika Apple mengeluarkan iphone, Google berpikir...
> Gimana kalo Apple berkuasa sendirian...
> Mengatur seluruh ekosistem.
>
> Makanya, google beli itu android.
>
> Nah, sekarang...
> Android jadi penguasa pasar...
> Google mulai berpikir untuk menguasai ekosistem android sendirian.
>
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> | @h4nafi | japri : [email protected] |
> On 21 Oct 2013 18:52, "Yudhistira Dwi Putra" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Ngng koq aneh sih? bukannya emang tujuannya untuk mencegah "Draconian
>> future" ya?
>> so knapa takut klo ga dapet google service? klo ketergantungan google
>> service malah
>> Draconian future bakal terjadi. Kan enak bwat para device manufacturer
>> klo aosp ga pake
>> google service. Misal nokia bisa adopsi AOSP bayangkan search bisa
>> diubah make bing
>> and map-nya pake nokia lens. imho gw lebih prefer maps di lumia windows
>> phone daripada
>> googlemaps. So para manufacture giants tersebut bisa fokus di
>> ecosystemnya masing2.
>> Dan developernya bisa jualan di banyak tempat misal jualan di samsung
>> app store, nvidia,
>> amazon dll dengan hanya sekali develop sekali karena platformnya tetep
>> sama yaitu android.
>>
>> On Monday, October 21, 2013 4:02:26 PM UTC+7, hanafi f 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/<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/<http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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