G+_DJ NightKat Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Over the last few weeks, I've been reading a lot of gripes by people saying that Google is "Closing Android" As they are pulling a lot of thier own apps into closed source, the question become, can an OEM make a quality experince based off the AOSP edition of android? Can a company take Open Source Android, and make a functional device devoid of Google services. The way I will figure this out, is I just flashed 4.4 AOSP image to my Nexus 7 2012 edition. I have only installed the downloadable Amazon App store. There is No Google Play, or any Google services, aside from my Gmail logged into the Default Email app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joseph Cappellino Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 I could probably do that on my tablet, but definitely not in my phone. I need Google Voice for outgoing calls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Marshall Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 There are certainly more than enough mail clients to even do without the Gmail app and email accouny, if necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Hendrix Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Yes because Cyanagonmod is the proof. You have to sideboard the Google Apps but when Google threatened them with lawsuits they said they would just create their own third party apps using Google SDK's. Google let them keep sideloading Google APKs. This is Google keeping their own stuff separate and for the fact most things are low cost of free, these are great apps. What makes what Google is doing compared to Apple is they are not pulling the "we have an app that does that you keep ours" mentality. He certainly Why you couldn't get Chrome on iOS for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_DJ NightKat Posted November 3, 2013 Author Share Posted November 3, 2013 Robert Marshall Actually, the built in email app is pretty functional. Google actually updated it for 4.4.giving it the slide out menus like G-Mail. It lacks threaded emails and it doesn't seem to want to do the thing where it keeps the header at the top of the window when scrolling, but it's at least as functional as the iOS built in email app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_DJ NightKat Posted November 3, 2013 Author Share Posted November 3, 2013 Joseph Cappellino Same here, I'm certainly IN the Google Eco-system. And i don't even know how long I can go w/o google on my Tablet either. It's kind of an experiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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