way KitKat Android 4.4 while Google continues creating the walking. The latest news is related to the version that Google will send to all manufacturers, as this will not have any browser included. That means manufacturers will have to develop its own with WebView, or license the Google browser, Chrome.
The reasons that led to the company’s Mountain View are hard to understand. So far, Google Chrome was included as the default in versions of Android that was sent to various manufacturers, from the time that Chrome passed to replace the default that came installed in the previous editions of the operating system browser browser. However, Google now sends its version of the operating system that manufacturers can customize and install without this browser is included. Manufacturers who want to use Chrome, Google will have to license it under. All this we know from the tweet of a developer dedicated to the world of Android, Maximiliano Firtman, who talks about “Android 4.4 +”, can refer to future versions, and not the current.
No differences for users
A priori, we do not find too many differences. Licensed manufacturers and other applications of Google, and now this will become part of this series of licensing applications with the company’s Mountain View. Thus, manufacturers who want to use Chrome just have to license it with Android. Those who would not do, develop their own browser, as Samsung currently does, and if so, does it affect users as the company would already include a different browser. On the other hand, you can always download Google Chrome from the app store.
A question of monopoly?
What is less clear are the reasons for the company to make this decision. For one, they might want to know which companies use their browser. Forcing them to use license it allows them to control it. However, that would limit the use of some companies that browser, which does not apply to Google.
What seems more likely is that the Mountain View want to avoid legal problems by antitrust powers. Microsoft, for example, was forced to give users what they wanted to use Internet browser on your computer, it was considered that the pre-installed Internet Explorer as the default browser was a monopolistic practice of Redmond. In the case of Google, it could be a case modeled, although in this case they would advance to any attack by the antitrust agencies. In this way, Google gives manufacturers the option of using their browser if they so request, but does not include it by default. If the case of Microsoft Internet Explorer in Windows would not have been so close, we could think that Google’s motives are different, but in this case, agree almost 100%, only instead of Windows for computers, we are talking about Android for smartphones and tablets, and instead of Internet Explorer, Chrome.
[Update]: The information in this article is not entirely accurate. We conducted a thorough article where we explain the different licenses browsers Google is currently facing and how the outlook for manufacturers from Android 4.4 KitKat.
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