Because Android is completely open, it has very few regulations on the OS. Even if it does, what's to prevent someone from swapping out the regulation program, just like swapping out the dialer?
I bring this question up because I just thought of something: Apple prevents people through its app store from running VOIP applications over EDGE to save AT&T the horror of losing money just due to iPhones. What's to keep android phones from running VOIP over a data network? If it is their method of app distribution, couldn't that be swapped out as well? If not, open source software is easily modified. It's just a thought, but...
24 April 2008
Android VOIP?
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Well, there's no low level SDK for the android existing outside google that people know of, just the java-ish SDK that google give for 3rd party developers. This SDK allows you full access to Google's API, which is missing VOIP features rather conspicuously. Hehe. The cartel strikes again. No VOIP for you sonny boy.
-da bishop.
I suppose so; I had kind of assumed that Android apps would be able to access TCP/IP directly, and HTTP is too slow to do it over.
In some ways, this limits android more, as there are VOIP apps for the iPhone, they just cannot be used over the data network.
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