>(the one you can actually use the Android mark with
source. A quick check of the brand guidelines page says nothing of the sort.
Also, you're intentionally blurring line between people who like the Android experience and people who like the idea of Android as a free OS that is literally taking the world by storm. There is nothing that you or taligent won't say to try to find something to back Android into a corner for the chance to say one bad thing about it.
Yeah, I like Android because Google Maps, Google Now and Gmail are very, very compelling offers. I like Android because it's open source, I can do far more with it than I can with iOS and I can do it far more efficiently and increasingly even more intuitively (How far do you have to work and disrupt your flow to enable/disable Wifi in iOS vs Android for example). I like it because it has a powerful intent system, allows side-loading apps and more.
Do you see how those are two different things? Do you see how using Google Apps as a way to just try to blanket dismiss peoples' opinions might be bad.
Which, parsing anally, might make me look wrong because you could use ASOP and also pass Google's non-open compatibility test but the clear meaning was that ASOP does not get to use the Trademark openly. Ask Asus if you have any doubt about this.
1. The brand page more or less straight up endorses using the mark, in so much as it describes how to do it properly with attribution of ownership of the mark to Google. Unless you think I'm misinterpreting the implication of this page? http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/promote/b... Full disclosure, I'm no trademark law expert or enthusiast.
2. That article above, while I missed the first time around is from a truly desperately atrocious source that missed the important facts surrounding the Alibaba case, but to be fair, so did reddit and HN. Everyone saw the shit show the first day as the "Android is Closed!!!11111" allegations flew, only to find out that Alibaba was ripping apps off the Android Market and putting them in a co-branded rip off app store...
source. A quick check of the brand guidelines page says nothing of the sort.
Also, you're intentionally blurring line between people who like the Android experience and people who like the idea of Android as a free OS that is literally taking the world by storm. There is nothing that you or taligent won't say to try to find something to back Android into a corner for the chance to say one bad thing about it.
Yeah, I like Android because Google Maps, Google Now and Gmail are very, very compelling offers. I like Android because it's open source, I can do far more with it than I can with iOS and I can do it far more efficiently and increasingly even more intuitively (How far do you have to work and disrupt your flow to enable/disable Wifi in iOS vs Android for example). I like it because it has a powerful intent system, allows side-loading apps and more.
Do you see how those are two different things? Do you see how using Google Apps as a way to just try to blanket dismiss peoples' opinions might be bad.