Comment by stinos
11 years ago
Isn't the whle point of the article that it's getting harder and harder to get the OS without being tied to Gapps? Which would justify the title?
11 years ago
Isn't the whle point of the article that it's getting harder and harder to get the OS without being tied to Gapps? Which would justify the title?
The Android platform is open source under Apache/BSD/MIT licenses -- it's no harder to get that than it ever has been (not hard at all). Look at products like Kindle Fire for examples of "uses Android without Google Apps".
Yes you can easily just download it. But that's not exactly what the article is about. It's about why OEMs don't just download it and put it on there as such, but instead seem to get tied to Google Apps.