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setsunatenshi on 26 July 2016
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zero129 said:
setsunatenshi said:

sure, that is a possibility. but i personally wouldn't bet on it if i had to. there are royalties involved in using android though, and judging from Nintendo's history they are very hesitant to license tech like this. also if they opened up for android it could expose them to piracy pretty early in the console's lifecycle (due to android being such an open and well known platform).

 

if Nintendo had the sense I don't think they do, they'd just stop with the hardware nonsense and dedicate themselves to software development, going full multiplat. smart money is on that as we've seen from pokemon go for example

Im not sure on this but, i think Android works like Linux and if a company wants to make their own Custom one they can without paying anyone.

But if they use one by another company they have to pay?.

I'm pretty sure Android and Linux are open Source, but maybe the is royalties involved when that OS is bundled with a payed platform?.

Like i said im not sure on how it all works, maybe someone better could explain?.

oh no no no... google licences android to hardware manufacturers, it is definitely not open source in any way. of course compared to the tight grip apple has on ios it might seems a lot more open platform in terms of customization.

 

other than this, there are guidelines for the software markets. not sure how the current policy is right now, but google pretty much frowns on selling software outside the playstore (in which they take a considerable cut per sale).