History revisited: Google/Android 2011 vs. Microsoft/Windows 1995
This article about how Google is using ‘Android Compatibility’ as a tool to dissuade manufacturers from using Google competitors is just like what Microsoft did in the nineties to encourage their OEMs to use Microsoft preferred browsers, ISP’s etc.
Hopefully I am wrong, but it seems like that this behavior is the beginning of the end of innovation for them - kinda like what happened to Microsoft 15 years ago.
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