superchunk on 29 December 2011
| NiKKoM said: lol... no.. besides the fact that we wouldn't need someone like Geohot to hack it and any 13 year old can pirate their ps4 games.. Android is a patent and license mess.. Google was nice enough to steal and use software from other companies, incorparted stuff like media codecs without licensing and made it the producers of android products problem.. HTC is paying 5 dollars each phone they sell with android to Microsoft.. Samsung pays Microsoft a sum for using Android.. Microsoft alone would make more money on it then Sony, not to mention all the lawsuits regarding Android still coming.. |
You know nothing behind the licensing.
All those companies pay $0 to Google. THey pay very little to MS for absolutely ridiculas basic OS operations. Same reasons Linux distributers have deals with MS.
Even when you include the small fee per device these companies are paying MS, its still FAR smaller than they would pay MS for WM as well as has far higher returns in application support and future compatibility.
Sony using Android in Vita, Sony creating the Playstation Suite in Android, Sony buying out Ericcson and focusing 100% of their phones in Android, Sony focusing on Google TV in all their blurays and TVs, etc... is all that is needed to have nearly 100% proof PS4 will have an Android backbone.
