Google forced OnePlus to decimate a Fortnite launcher deal, claims Epic Games

Post by jessaustin » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 4:57 AM UTC

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Do you have any idea how much utter garbage Google forces vendors to ship with a phone simply to have access to a web browser and the Play store? Or perhaps you're one of the lucky few who haven't been woken at 4am to an urgent notification: "YOUR PHONE HAS TOO MANY MEMES. WOULD YOU LIKE TO DELETE MEMES?" Prohibitions on bloatware, my arse!

People often seem surprised when I tell them I sleep withy phone on silent and / or in flight mode. I believe I can even set some numbers to ring through silent, haven't tried it though. Sleep is precious.

Post by nl » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 5:07 AM UTC

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I think in the last thread a bunch of people were adamant Google wasn't a monopolist because plenty of phones shipped with app stores outside of Play. Seems like Google picks and chooses which of those are okay. It's time to stop lying: Google will absolutely abandon every single rule in the book to ensure they get 30% of Fortnite purchases. It's too lucrative, and Google is too greedy. This has nothing to do with sa…

did any of these alternatives also ship google play side by side with alternative stores? unless a company has a special deal with google, then it's either google or alternatives but not both. i think the only reason there could be a special deal is that google made some concessions when trying to convince a manufacturer to use android. but that would be an older deal.

Post by nl » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 5:32 AM UTC

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Which apps specifically do you classify as "utter garbage"? Looking at my OnePlus, I can't see anything I'd call that. The most annoying part is that I can't completely uninstall Duo and Chrome, but neither one is on a garbage level, I just prefer alternatives. Otherwise... I think I used pretty much every other default app.

Pixel 3a. Google assistant. You can't disable it without breaking other things. You can't disable the shortcuts that open it without unnecessarily regressing the rest of the UI. It's bound to "swipe up from a corner" which is an action you accidentally perform on a semi-regular basis. It's utterly and completely useless (to me).

Post by em-bee » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 5:56 AM UTC

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even samsung is limited. they have their alternative OS, but they are not allowed to support android apps on that OS because that would violate their android license which they need on other devices. other alternative systems have more freedom than samsung because they are not bound by a license from google.

Samsung has the Galaxy Appstore on their Android devices. > they have their alternative OS This is Tizen, and it doesn't support Android apps at all. It's a completely different operating system, so not entirely clear why Sumsung would want Android apps on it.

Post by bilbo0s » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 6:13 AM UTC

pixl97 wrote: post #30

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #25

I think in the last thread a bunch of people were adamant Google wasn't a monopolist because plenty of phones shipped with app stores outside of Play. Seems like Google picks and chooses which of those are okay. It's time to stop lying: Google will absolutely abandon every single rule in the book to ensure they get 30% of Fortnite purchases. It's too lucrative, and Google is too greedy. This has nothing to do with sa…

Apple and Google chiming together: "we're not a monopoly, we're a duopoly and that's perfectly legal"