Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 13, 2012 @08:01AM 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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Re:Microsoftesque? by Analog+Penguin · 2012-09-13 09:56 · Score: 5, Informative

This was true only for Honeycomb, and even then only for a while; they eventually released the source for that as well. All other Android versions have had source drop before they were available on a device. Anything else you want to be wrong about today?