If not literally, Google has somehow bloated Android by integrating some apps like Google Play Music, Google Play Books, Google Play Movies, Hangout, Google +, Youtube and so on. Since this apps are integrated into the OS, the user cannot remove them and is thus forced to use the same. On phones which have less than 500mb apps storage, these apps take up to 50 percent of the storage and sometimes even more. This move by google is widely criticised by most and thus is considered one of the drawbacks of the so-called open source Android.
Recently, Cyanogen has teamed up with Microsoft to provide a replacement for the Google apps in Android. The agreement was done on Thursday and few details of the deal are given below.
Kirt McMaster, CEO of Cyanogen Inc, thinks that this new partnership with Microsoft will enable them to bring new kinds of integrated services to the mobile users around the world. It will be an exciting experience for the people using Cyanogen’s operating system. Peggy Johnson, Executive Vice President of Microsoft Corp hoped that this partnership would help them in reaching their ambition of spreading the Microsoft Apps to everyone and empowering them in various aspects of their lives.
Under the deal, Microsoft will partner with Cyanogen to integrate and distribute Microsoft apps in place of Google apps in the devices running Cyanogen OS. Some of these services include Bing, Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook and Microsoft Office, and they will be clearly competing against some of Google’s own core offerings on the mobile devices running Android.
The time from when the Cyanogen OS will come with preinstalled Microsoft apps is still not clear though. But it does seem that Microsoft and Cyanogen do have a common purpose in sidelining Google from Android. In this era of highly unlikely companies joining forces to defeat a mutual enemy, this deal comes as a surprise and only time will tell which giant emerges as the winner.
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