> Google (Most powerful of the three in terms of control over people's lives if they wanted it, but I seriously think they stumble ethically not on purpose. I believe they try to follow, "Don't be evil" as a whole)
Um I read every word. I fail to see the Lighting Bolt ah ha. Yes Google is in the data collection business. They have stated it since day one and in every product they produce. GMail was a GB of space if we get to send you ads.
That they were HUGELY upset that they would lose a data collection stream? Or that they were trying to figure out what to do? Android as a service has requirements or you can make a Fire Phone like Amazon did with the Open Source code of the product doesn't seem like M$.
You can explain what I am missing but the fact that we have Amazon Fire Phone and Fire Tablets all based on a fork of Android seems to kill the implications of these emails.
Have you looked into MonoGame (http://www.monogame.net/)? It is basically a fully open source re-implementation of the XNA framework with support for almost every major platform (iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox, OS X, Linux, etc.)
Yes, MonoGame is good, but at the time I was trying to salvage my XNA team+IP monogame was 2d only. (I think it can do 3d now?) we ended up moving to Unity but this technical roadblock plus some market related ones ultimately led me to abandon gamedev.
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-skyhook-emails-2011-5?...
http://www.androidauthority.com/google-speaks-up-on-the-acer...