On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
On Tuesday 27 March 2012 19:33:12 Russell Coker wrote:
Google has a set of binary-only proprietary apps for Android which can only be installed by a hardware vendor who satisfies some Google conditions.
That appears to no longer be the case..
Unless I'm missing something, that still seems to back up Matt's statement. There's a note on that page that some apps can now be downloaded from the marketplace, but it's important to realise that the marketplace app itself is one such binary-only app that you can't legally get unless it came with your phone. There _are_ links to downloads of the google apps on that wiki, but I expect it's illegal to distribute them, and maybe even to download them.