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#27
Originally Posted by marxian View Post
It is the same. It's Google trying to force their services onto device manufacturers by preventing the release of devices that come without those services. Those services are being bundled into Android in the same way that IE was bundled into Windoze. The fact that Android is open source is irrelevant to this. It would be like Linus Torvalds saying 'you can't release a Linux device without my personal approval'.
I disagree. You can create an Android handset without Play Services and release it, without anyone suing you, see for example Amazon.

OTOH you could never release a device with Windows and leave out IE. Even removing it was impossible, which you can do on Android if you root your device.
 

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