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Google and Alibaba Continue Warring Over Acer Phone

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Re: Google and Alibaba Continue Warring Over Acer Phone

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And Google isn't trying to sue Aliyun out of existence, nor forcibly prevent Acer from shipping Aliyun devices.

> nor forcibly prevent Acer from shipping Aliyun devices You and me seem to have different definitions for the term 'forcibly', because that's exactly what they seem to be doing here, like Microsoft forced Hitachi not to ship dual boot systems with BeOS under the threat of pulling Windows.

Except Hitachi couldn't have still put out PCs with Microsoft on them. Acer would still be able to put out Android devices.

Re: Google and Alibaba Continue Warring Over Acer Phone

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Alibaba pirated google apps and put them on their appstore. That's different. Android can be forked just fine.

The pirated app thing was brought up after the fact, and really has nothing to do with the original issue- that google is strong arming a company to prevent a competing OS from being released. Besides, claiming that Alibabi supports piracy because there are pirated apps in their store is the same as saying Google supports malware because their stores have sold infected apps.

But since Alibaba themselves put the pirated google apps on their store, I'd say that's quite a different situation than Google Play having malware.
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