Report: Google Wants Phone Makers To Add More Pre-Installed Google Apps

[engine]

Here's the money making push from Google with Android. If it's pushed too far, could phone makers start to look at alternative OS?

Confidential documents viewed by The Information show Google has been adding requirements for dozens of manufacturers like Samsung Electronics, Huawei Technologies and HTC that want to build devices powered by Android. Among the new requirements for many partners: increasing the number of Google apps that must be pre-installed on the device to as many as 20, placing more Google apps on the home screen or in a prominent icon folder and making Google Search more prominent.Report: Google Wants Phone Makers To Add More Pre-Installed Google Apps [theinformation.com]

[superclown2]

..... which was one of the factors that European legislators were already getting hot under the collar about. They may well be sowing the wind once too often.

[Swanny007]

I would be far more interested in a Samsung phone if it didn't have all the Android and Google crap in it. I'm sticking with my iPhone much in part because it's not sending all my data to Google (yeah I know it's going to Apple, but I see them as the lesser of two evils). This news really doesn't surprise me at all.

[micklearn]

Isn't this exactly the type of behavior that they and other companies fought against with Microsoft and IE back in the day?

[EditorialGuy]

On the other hand, Google is supplying Android to manufacturers for free, so maybe beggars shouldn't be choosers.

As a consumer, I'm more annoyed by manufacturer-installed bloatware than by apps, utilities, etc. that come with the operating system.