A zero-sum gameīots and personal digital assistants are a hot topic these days. Tagging you to download the McDonald’s application when you step inside a store is right in line with the kind of “Nearby” function Google wants to implement. So how does this relate to the tweet from Mustafa Al-Bassam, the security researcher who first discussed the issue? Because these APIs are linked to Google Play, you may see pop-ups in some cases that aren’t coming through specific applications like Google Maps. Google has a set of APIs, including location-based, that run through Google Play, and there’s some concern in the EU about how this may have impacted the competitive market. (Amazon Fire tablets can install the Google Play Store, but they don’t ship with it installed by default and you have to jump through some hoops to get everything working).
It’s why there’s limited overlap by default between the apps that are available on Amazon hardware and what you get with Google Android. This core disagreement is why Amazon forked Android and created its own distro. This is a theme we’ve discussed before in other contexts - Google has been replacing AOSP components with its own, closed-source mechanisms for years now, and it requires the phone OEMs to agree to fairly onerous terms in exchange for shipping Google Play. First of all, it’s true that location services are integrated into Google Play and that Google actively encourages developers to use Google Play services, rather than the open-source location APIs that are part of AOSP (Android Open Source Project).
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