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Oletros on June 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google's Sundar Pichai Is the Most Powerful Man in...

Android is open source, Google services are not.

gress on July 1, 2014 [–]

You have failed to address the point I made.

What Google calls Android includes a great deal of closed code.

You can make up a private definition of your own if you like, but it's not the one Google uses, so is irrelevant.

Oletros on July 2, 2014 | [–]

You have failed to just read the Android site

https://source.android.com/source/index.html

gress on July 2, 2014 | | [–]

You have failed to watch the Google I/O keynote.

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