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Originally Posted by Mark Rehorst
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I don't know why Google restricts access to its Marketplace. One would think that they'd try to give every Android device access, but clearly that is not the case. ...<snip>
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As vaughnmr pointed out, Google leverages access to their applications (including the marketplace) as a means of exercising some degree of control over the Android ecosystem (via licensing terms). Obviously since the OS is fundamentally open anyone can take it and do what they like with it (fork it/skin it beyond recognition..etc..).
The Google applications are some of the nicer ones from all reports so loosing these is often seen as a strike against those without the "Google Experience".
Anyone familiar enough with Android to answer my prior question or am I going to have to hit up the googles;
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Originally Posted by molman
Not living in the Android world hopefully someone can answer this for me. How does the Android model work with regards to bugs and security vulnerabilities? I mean are new updates and patches rolled out for older version levels or are these only rolled into the next version? I'm just curious what it means for a tablet based off a 2.2 version of Andriod. I mean these tablets are full functioning little computers these days that hit the internet with all these entails so I'm curious how this element his handled.
Also what application considerations are there? Did version 3 (aka Honeycomb) bring many changes that would affect application development (API's/underlying system stuff) or was it more user space/UI stuff?
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