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We need to explain to Paul2 that Google Play Services is not open source, and how it increasingly has been an essential part of Android.
Aug 26, 2025
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Actually I think the Professor knows quite a lot about the Intel company. Way more than you would expect from a regular economist.
And...
Aug 26, 2025
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It's technically trivial to make it backwards compatible only for your version of Android, but not forward. So eventually they can...
Aug 26, 2025
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It’s a cross-licensing deal between Intel and AMD with no payment involved. The two important components are Intel’s x86-related...
Aug 26, 2025
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Sure they can make a fork not compatible with Google Play Services and add their own app store instead. But then none of the google apps...
Aug 26, 2025
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In the bottom level, Android is open source, and GPL, which can be altered trivially. And after a trivial modification, they can just...
Aug 26, 2025
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What would be the benefit of that to Qualcomm? Google would still control the whole ecosystem as they would be the only ones developing...
Aug 26, 2025
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Yes, I am saying they can make a 1-to-1 Android fork of the current version of Android and, over the years, divert everything from...
Aug 26, 2025
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So calculating in the dissociative “medication” to this latest delusion, xAI will buy a couple hundred thousand of chips worth some...
Aug 26, 2025
Softbank is also an investor in Rapidus so maybe Masayoshi Son is hedging his bets?
Aug 26, 2025
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I'm still not clear on what you are proposing. Are you saying that Qualcomm should or should not make an android fork?
Aug 26, 2025
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Not only that, the technical capability is there to block even third party executable code from running on a tweaked kernel.
Google...
Aug 26, 2025
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You'd have to explain yourself more.
"They don't have to develop a competition": then what is the Qualdroid you mentioned?
"just prevent...
Aug 26, 2025
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They don't have to develop a competition, just prevent it from running, and exact astonishing fees.
Aug 26, 2025
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Then they would have to spend billions each year develop this Qualdroid fork. Which probably wouldn't even succeed, given the near...
Aug 26, 2025
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It’s a cross-licensing deal between Intel and AMD with no payment involved. The two important components are Intel’s x86-related...
Daniel Nenni replied to the thread What does the Softbank $2B Investment in Intel Really mean?.Softbank is also an investor in Rapidus so maybe Masayoshi Son is hedging his bets?