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Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android

Posted by timothy on from the they'd-have-to-use-windows-phone dept.

Spy Handler writes "In a Microsoft-esque move, Google threatened Acer with banishment from Android if it went ahead with its new cellphone project with Alibaba (China's version of Amazon), using an OS called Aliyun. Acer has remained silent on the issue, but Alibaba reports that they received notification from Google, stating 'if the new product launch with Aliyun went ahead, Google would terminate Android product cooperation and related technical authorization with Acer.' A possible reason for Google's upset is that the Aliyun OS, which is not Android, can run Android apps as well as its own."

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  1. Google is evil by DebianUbuntu · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This just establishes the fact that Google is evil. Not only are they spying everything we do, they try to control the market with shit moves like this. I mean come on, do you have to repeat all the bad decisions Microsoft did?

    I say we stop them. Let's break up the company. It's obviously too big. Since Google haven't themselves invented anything else than their search engine it's easy to break them apart. Liberate Android, YouTube, Chrome, Gmail, their video codec and so on.. they've all bought up other companies, anyway.

    Do you hear that Google?

    Do you hear the sounds?

    These sounds are made by users. These sounds are break-up sounds. And we're only getting started!

    To the barricades, Slashdotters!