- cross-posted to:
- android
- cross-posted to:
- android
- Reports suggest Glance is preparing to debut in the U.S. “later this year” following its pilot program with Motorola and Verizon.
- Sources state Glance will not capture data, but will instead leverage a user’s “patterns” to offer recommendations.
- Glance states it will not show ads in the U.S., opting for news stories, and it will look to offer a subscription service for "premium news
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It’s not part of Android and not even made by Google
The first paragraph refers to it as “Google-backed Indian startup Glance”. It’s not part of Android, but Google is involved
They back a lot of stuff, doesn’t mean they’ll implement it into Android. If it’s not open source, they can’t make it part of Android anyway.
A company investing in a startup does not mean they are “involved” in any way.
The company that is programming the operating system is investing in a company that makes malware for said operating system. How they can’t be considered involved? Once they invested the $140 million, they would be less likely to consider that malware as such. They won’t block that malware with Google play protect, ignore the privacy issues that would lead to a ban on the play store, and so on.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t don’t see Apple investing even a dollar on a company that is making malware for iPhones
An investor in a company will push to make that company gain market share. As we can see here.
This isn’t a part of Google. Likely carriers will try to put it on phones you get through them especially mid-range devices. Also it can be disabled (and even uninstalled through shizuku or ADB or something)
Default setting = what 90% of users would keep
If a phone comes with this pre installed, nobody would ever uninstall it. Or even realize that the annoying ads are coming from this app. They would just think “ads everywhere, android is shit, next phone is going to be an iPhone”.