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10-22-2018, 11:39 AM | #31 | |
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Zdnet thinks the ruling opens a door for a competing non-Google android ecosystem run by an Amazon/Microsoft alliance.
I'm skeptical of market acceptance but in theory... https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-am...96500774529668 Quote:
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Google has already gone to some pretty extreme lengths to keep Echo Shows out of Youtube, even blocking browser traffic. There's no reason to expect anything less for non-licensed android phones.
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Except it worked when I first bought the computer and quit working when Windows upgraded the system.
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Chromecast users who couldn't access Prime Video and Fire TV users who couldn't access YouTube would beg to differ. That happened before there was Alexa. Maybe it only affected you when the speakers were released.
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The catfight started after the release of the Echo Show, not the speaker. Before, FireTV had youtube access, even in 4K. 2016: http://www.aftvnews.com/youtube-app-...ra-hd-support/ Afterwards, Google griped about the Echo Show interface and started blocking it: http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-resto...d-dailymotion/ http://www.aftvnews.com/google-to-pu...uary-1st-2018/ Quote:
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The Youtube/Prime Video fight's been on again off again since the Fire TV/Stick first came out in 2014.
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Sounds like a good development to me. The Google apps take up so much storage space that I ran out of internal storage pretty quickly and had to add external storage to my phone just to be able to install all of the apps that I actually wanted, and store some items that I wanted to. And I didn't want most of the apps that they had included--it was just bloatware (to put it civilly) to me. When I tried to uninstall some of the Google/Android apps, the apps all gave me the dire warning that uninstalling them could mess up my phone.
The thing that I wonder is why Google/Android/cell phone makers couldn't make a specific phone for "export to the EU only" or "use outside the EU only." Electronics of other similar things, at least ebooks and videos (via "codes") can do that. The only reason that I can think of is that Americans do travel to Europe, and the authorities there might do who-knows-what if a person actually used, or tried to use, their U.S. cellphone. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 11-01-2018 at 05:32 PM. |
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Updates are always a pain, because so many times they are not for the benefit of the user but the company. I'm using XP still, right now, because I didn't want to have anything to do with the 10 spy system. So guess what? After an XP update I found it took ages for the system to stop churning so I could use it, followed the "processes" lists down, and found that all the Windows 10 spy stuff was now in XP, working overtime. It took several trips to the internet, and most of a morning, to shut it all down. And then, cream of the jest, another update caused my Dreamweaver 4 software to stop working. It's heritage software all right, but I was used to it and could use it for all sorts of stuff from websites to html editor for ebooks. I reloaded Dreamweaver but no, it's gone for good. Won't start any more. Now I'm using Kompozer freeware, ancient, but simple, in its place. But both websites I run use Frames, and Kompozer can't handle frames. Oh the fun coming up with a workaround. I finally blocked updates all together. Unless I know what they do and what they affect, I don't want them, and MS don't give you a clue in advance.
As for my android phone, it's just a mobile phone. I don't use it for anything else at all. Oh, sorry: I do a little texting, but not much. It;s nice to grumble occasionally. |
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