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Originally Posted by kjk
Maybe they just don't want to be at a disadvantage compared to manufacturers that Google favors-manufacturers who, unlike Amazon, don't "align to their standard" by including stuff like the Google App Store.
But it's all speculation of course-for all we know Amazon may end up providing a vanilla Android install-Bezos is nothing if not adaptable. |
Most of the companies not getting licenses for the gapps, aren't typically doing things bleeding edge, so not getting the latest release on time won't be a big deal. For instance, Velocity, has never used the latest release. They start working on something when such and such version is out, and even though a new version gets released before they've finished development, they don't change Android versions (despite the minimal amount of work that it would require, due to how vanilla their included versions are). For example, the Velocity Cruz T301 was released in December 2010, shipping with 2.0 installed. At the time of release, 2.0 was well over a year old, and had been replaced 3 times in that period (2.0.1, 2.1, 2.2, and if you want to be nitpicky, 2.3 was released little over a week before the release). Eventually, Cruz released an update to Froyo (2.2), because people were having issues with apps requiring atleast 2.1 or 2.2, in May (Some 6 months after 2.3 was released).