Android market is divided into two categories, one is the official version of Google's Android system, implanted in a lot of Google's own applications and services, mobile phone manufacturers need and Google signed a licensing agreement to be able to carry the system.
Another Android operating system is a customized version of vendors, including Amazon and China almost all app development systems vendors based on Google's free custom code changes, re-issue for consumers, but the device did not get Google certification.
According to the US technology news website TheVerge, in the past, only Google certified Android devices were able to run Google's various mobile phone software, such as Google Maps, Play software stores, and email clients.
In the past, some highly skilled users of non-certified Android phones could download and install Google's various software in other ways. In addition, there are some mobile phone manufacturers with poor brand image that have implanted Google's software without Google's authorization.
Today, Google will rectify the phenomenon of carrying Google software on non-authorized devices. According to Google's new policy, the future of the company will be checked for Android by application software, if a non-certified device (including the domestic mobile phone), as well as compile-time Android later than March 16 of this year, the Google software will be completely unable to run.
Obviously, the chaos about Google's official software will be terminated.
However, for various Android-customized users, Google has not completely blocked the use of its own software channels. Other users can use the Android ID number to apply to Google. Each user can apply for up to 100 Android devices to run Google software.
However, the specific details of Google's policy are still unknown, such as how Google defines the "customized version of Android", whether users of Android phones in China can apply, install and run Google applications.
As we all know, domestic mobile phones use a customized version of the Android system, most of which removes Google's basic services and official software. When users install some external applications through a channel other than the mobile phone software store, they will be informed of the lack of Google Play services and will not be able to run.
Google is not only the developer of Android system, but also the largest development organization of Android mobile application software. Google's e-mail client and other products have become an essential tool for many people's work and life.
It is worth mentioning that the open source policy of Android system also brought many problems to Google, such as the fragmentation of the operating system. Although Google will be upgraded each year once Android system, but consumers of mobile phone systems, depending on the rhythm of mobile phone manufacturers to upgrade customized version, customized version of these versions generally lagged behind Google Android official version, which led the market there are a lot of older versions of Android, affect Android app development and upgrading. This fragmentation also has an impact on the security of Android phones.
Google has been hoping to solve the problem of fragmentation by promoting the official version of Android, but today, most Android phones still use vendor-customized operating systems.
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