… On Sunday, the organization behind the de-Googled Android alternative posted a long thread on X claiming that these verification methods are sold as security features but actually eliminate competition. …
… It's easy to forget that Android is a very young operating system. …
… Android itself is open source, so if Yandex doesn't like Google's bundling of services, it can simply take the open source version and create a fork without Google's oversight. It's all right there in the Android Open Source Project. …
… About 133.4 million people use Android smartphones in the United States alone, making for a robust tracking network. …
… Android is having a ton of success, especially if you count Kindle in that camp, but Microsoft has been struggling with its Windows RT platform. …
… Fragmentation is still rampant in the Android OS; case in point we have yet to see a Google Experience ICS powered tablet, even though ICS source has been released. ICS was supposed to end the fragmentation issues by unifying the platform, instead it created another crack in the Android ecosystem. …
… On the software side of things, rather excitingly, it looks like the Razr I runs an almost-vanilla version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich . …
… Sources claim that India's Competition Commission of India CCI started investigating Google's Android licensing practices about six months ago. …
… It also raised issues with the previous court's interpretation of California's unfair competition law. …
… From the time that Tegra started showing up in Android phones and tablets late last year, Nvidia has worked closely with developers to make Tegra a premium product people would recognize. The Android Market is already rife with games that are designed for use only with Tegra 2 SoCs. …