”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls”
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”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls”
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#2Slighlty OT: Anybody knows why installing an OS on mobile hardware cannot be just like installing Windows in the old days? First installing the base system and then drivers for 'non-standard' hardware components. Why do need hardware manufacturers and OS vendors to talk?
Getting the G-Suite seems to be a problem now but there are already some alternatives for each of the G-Suite's apps and I'd welcome any newcomer to this stage-so I wouldn't consider the G-Suite as the main problem with Android.
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#3It's not just them. Google doesn't talk to anybody.
Re: ”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls”
#4Slighlty OT: Anybody knows why installing an OS on mobile hardware cannot be just like installing Windows in the old days? First installing the base system and then drivers for 'non-standard' hardware components. Why do need hardware manufacturers and OS vendors to talk? Getting the G-Suite seems to be a problem now but there are already some alternatives for each of the G-Suite's apps and I'd welcome any newcomer to…
It pretty much is - depending on how locked down the system is.
For example, you can install Ubuntu on (some) Android devices - http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/install
It was possible to install Android on Nokia's Maemo phones - http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2009/05/nitdroid-installing-android-...
It depends on how open the handset is to having its firmware replaced.
What this article is talking about is having phones "blessed" by Google so they can include G* services (mail, maps, play, etc).
Re: ”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls”
#5Slighlty OT: Anybody knows why installing an OS on mobile hardware cannot be just like installing Windows in the old days? First installing the base system and then drivers for 'non-standard' hardware components. Why do need hardware manufacturers and OS vendors to talk? Getting the G-Suite seems to be a problem now but there are already some alternatives for each of the G-Suite's apps and I'd welcome any newcomer to…
You can download source code and blobs for some Sony phones. Something things work, some require closed source blobs. Some things don't work because the driver providers don't allow Sony to redistribute them separately.
Edit: info http://developer.sonymobile.com/knowledge-base/open-source/a...
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#6Can anyone explain how I can just install the G-suite on Cyanogenmod then? Is it blessed by Google? Or does it recognise that my phone is appropriately blessed via the bootloader?
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#7That was unexpected. Why would Google be so ignorant of Android China? China seems like such an obvious part of the mobile big picture that I can only assume "big" things.
In no particular order:
• Google's decision to leave China [1]
• Political interference to protect a Chinese mobile OS [2]
• Some sort of license restriction that doesn't effect Google services over the web but kicks in for mobile (completely a wild guess here)
• Political interference to keep Samsung out (so implausible I don't even believe it, but for the sake of discussion...) [3]
[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/01/furious-google-th...
[2] maybe http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/28/why-htc-is-making-a-m...
Re: ”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls”
#8Slighlty OT: Anybody knows why installing an OS on mobile hardware cannot be just like installing Windows in the old days? First installing the base system and then drivers for 'non-standard' hardware components. Why do need hardware manufacturers and OS vendors to talk? Getting the G-Suite seems to be a problem now but there are already some alternatives for each of the G-Suite's apps and I'd welcome any newcomer to…
The Google apps are significantly better at present. What is needed is a community effort to work on one set of replacements that work well, rather than the fragmented alternatives.
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#9Can anyone explain how I can just install the G-suite on Cyanogenmod then? Is it blessed by Google? Or does it recognise that my phone is appropriately blessed via the bootloader?
You can flash Gapps to get the G-suite in CyanogenMod.
Download at http://goo.im/gapps
Copy to your SD, reboot into recovery, flash the .zip file, reboot.
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#10Android is more and more like the mobile equivalent of desktop Windows. Now they have the huge pirate market in China too.
When this happened to Microsoft, certain strategy-oriented parts of the company were happy to see Windows spread everywhere as quickly as possible and deal with piracy later, whereas others were more concerned with the bottom line and how to extract revenue immediately. Google will have to deal with the same political questions.
It's funny how Android even has its own versions of OS/2 in the form of BlackBerry 10 and Jolla's Sailfish -- that is, competing operating systems that proclaim to be technically more advanced while offering reasonable app-level compatibility with the dominant system. (I suspect that BB10 and Sailfish will share OS/2's fate in a few years. Too little user benefit against the high cost of lacking access to the dominant vendor's services.)