I think this is the perfect time for a couple smart Chinese, or East Indian, software companies to offer a compelling alternative to what Google is doing. Google, from what I can see, isn't doing us any favors here. It hardly pays any taxes in comparison to the revenue it generates each year. Who really wants to support a corporation that behaves like that.
Source:
http://valleywag.gawker.com/google-is-still-paying-barely-any-taxes-on-its-billions-1610960893Thank goodness there still remains the Android Open Source Project. I figure a company like Maxthon has enough software savvy, and enough business smarts, to partner with good hardware manufacturer, and give Google a good run for its money. Those who know how to read code would be able to see how clean these Android OSes would be running. We'd all get more privacy than we do now with Google. The gruesome Sixsome -- the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel all pretty much have open dips on all of our personal data. The Chinese could make a good open source Android OS, and package it in a good product, and sell these Android or Chromium OSes to us at a reasonable price, while helping all of us, on this side of the Pacific basin, protect our privacy.
No, my Peppermint friends, open source is supposed to be exactly that -- open source! Google is getting way to big for its britches here, and it's beginning to act, and think, more like Microsoft than Firefox here.
We need a new vision here: We need new players in the Android market, and some good solid people who will continue to go by the rules governing open source.
