Google Pressured Acer/Alibaba Because of Android Compatibility Issues

An anonymous reader writes "On Thursday we discussed news that Google pressured Acer and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to cancel the launch of a phone running the Aliyun OS. Google has now addressed the issue, speaking out on the importance of compatibility for Android devices. Andy Rubin, who runs Android development at Google, said Aliyun was a non-compatible version of Android, which weakens the ecosystem. He pointed out that the Open Handset Alliance provides all the tools necessary to make it compatible. An Alibaba exec fired back, saying, 'Aliyun OS is not part of the Android ecosystem so of course Aliyun OS is not and does not have to be compatible with Android. It is ironic that a company that talks freely about openness is espousing a closed ecosystem.'"

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Re:Android and Google

[Dupple]

DevRT. The name was a give away. 1 comment and it's trolling.

Android incompatibility with Java

[tepples]

So remind me how Google make an incompatible implementation of Java?

Android uses the Java language and some Java core libraries, but the implementation is neither a complete implementation of Java SE (e.g. no AWT or Swing compatibility) nor of Java ME (e.g. no MIDlet compatibility), and it uses Dalvik bytecode instead of JVM bytecode.

Re:When Microsoft did it, it was evil.

[symbolset]

Google's not afraid of the competition. They're not complaining about Amazon's fork of Android. What they mind is that this member of the group organized to build a successful open Android system was trying to both be in the club, getting the benefits of being in the club, and also break the club rules about working counter to the purpose of the club. That's fair. That's not evil. "In or out, Acer buddy, but close the door. We're having a meeting."