{"id":931,"date":"2013-10-28T22:11:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T04:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2013-11-19T22:23:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T05:23:40","slug":"is-android-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/is-android-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Android open?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica has an <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2013\/10\/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary\/\">interesting article<\/a> about how &#8220;Android is open\u2014except for all the good parts&#8221;, which they&#8217;ve been making proprietary.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a warning to developers who integrate with proprietary Google APIs &#8212; maps APIs, cloud messaging, location APIs, in-app purchasing, &#8220;Play Games&#8221; API. When they embrace Google&#8217;s great APIs, it makes it more difficult to port to Kindle Fire and other Android derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>My overall feeling is that Google gives users more freedom with Android than Apple gives users with iPhone\/iOS. (Sidenote: In spite of that, I like iOS slightly better).<\/p>\n<p>Closing the good parts doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s no competition &#8212; there&#8217;s still iPhone and Windows Phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica has an interesting article about how &#8220;Android is open\u2014except for all the good parts&#8221;, which they&#8217;ve been making proprietary. It&#8217;s a warning to developers who integrate with proprietary Google APIs &#8212; maps APIs, cloud messaging, location APIs, in-app purchasing, &#8220;Play Games&#8221; API. When they embrace Google&#8217;s great APIs, it makes it more difficult &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/is-android-open\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Android open?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}