A lot has been posted lately about Google shutting down the cyanogen custom Android ROM. This article has a good summary of the discussions and history about the events around Google being almost evil:
The problem is that by trying to protect their few proprietary applications, Google is essentially shutting down the possibility of any custom ROMs from being legal. But they will still be made and they will still be distributed. Google is basically moving the modding community from doing their work in the light to doing their work in the dark. Forget about getting ROMs on XDA-DEVS… Android builds are about to become torrents and warez.
via Eff Google, Screw Android: The Backlash Begins | Android Phone Fans.
The Google apps on Android (Market, Maps, GMail, …) stay closed source. It looks like Google is selling them to handset creators – and doesn’t like them to be available without explicit permission. Understandable but still sad, since the hype around Android is, in my humble opinion, solely based on the nerds who like the platform and advertise by mouth-to-mouth propaganda.
If I want to have a locked-down platform, I could switch to the iPhone. If I want to „go underground“ with mods, I can switch to the iPhone. So basically, Android offers no advantage to the iPhone if Google decides to treat Android the same way Apple treats the iPhone platform. The average Android headself feels more slow than Apples alternative, so there are actually reasons to switch!
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