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Monopoly in the making
By bhougha10 on 8/2/2010 6:32:49 PM , Rating: 1
So let me get this. Google is providing a free operating system on a bunch of China manufactured phones? Basically running out of market the only portion of the phone that could make some money for a US company?

Once Google runs everyone out of buisness and then comes back and tries to start charging for the software or putting adds on the phones, they should be sued for monopolistic practices.

RE: Monopoly in the making
By OnyxNite on 8/3/2010 11:15:52 AM , Rating: 2
Even if Google ran everyone out of business as you say and then came back and tried to start charging they could only do so for future releases. What would happen then is that the various phone manufacturers and carriers would refuse to pay and instead take the most recent free version and "fork" it. Developing it going forward without Google and thus avoiding the fees. Google will stick ads in Android but they'll do it by offering you a good enough service for free that you're willing to accept the ads, like they do with gmail.

