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welcome back to Android QA my name is Jace and this is where we try and answer your most pressing Android questions like why is it that Google makes Android open source and better yet what does open source even mean when the licensing costs for manufacturers can be crippling that's sort of like saying sure you can date my beautiful daughter I'm just gonna castrate you first now first off let's clear up one of the major misconceptions when it comes to Android and open source most people tend to believe that although Android is free to use and install manufacturers have to pay mother Google a licensing fee turns out not exactly true you see if you and I want to install Android on any of our compatible devices we can do that free of charge no problem but when a manufacturer wants to sell Android power devices to the masses they must get licensed by mother Google if they want to use Google mobile services as Gmail Google Play Store and Google Maps etc now to get that certification they don't have to pay anything to Google but they must get certified or tested by Google recognized third-party testers and that can be expensive anywhere from forty to seventy thousand dollars for every one hundred thousand devices yeah that's what I thought okay so now that we've clarified that Google doesn't make money off licensing Android how do they make their money well with over a billion downloads of Android or installations of Android they are able to get a much farther reach making an open source and free and it goes back to Google's fundamental business model search ads and with all our use of Google Play Store Google Maps Gmail Google keep you name it they have lots of relevant data on our lives what we buy what we watch where we go who we do it with they are then able to give us or deliver us targeted ads that are relevant to the things we care about that's how Google has made a gazillion dollars now the next question is one that I've answered multiple times before and some of you are going to be sick of this but it was one of those popular questions recently in the forums and that should I get a phone and a tablet or just get it all the one option and buy a phablet so now it's time to take stock of how you actually use your device now how you think you use it but how you actually use it in a day to day basis women in my family for example my wife and my daughter they're pretty casual users so they use their phone to text call play candy crush and Facebook and that's really about it and that is the vast majority of Android users however if you are watching this video you have passed the threshold of being an Android geek and if you can afford it you really want one of both when I first started out I bought a phablet the note 1 and it was fantastic for a time but after a while it just was not meeting my needs so if you're doing a lot of media consumption and you're not just using your phone casual like most people do get both if you can by phone now save up for a tablet let me know what you think now the third question is can I get Google now to work on my desktop if you use Google now on your mobile device you can see certain now cards on your desktop computer if you're signed in to Chrome including weather sports scores commute traffic and even reminder cards some of these cards may be based on the location of your mobile device Google now on Chrome shows a subset of now cards you can see on your mobile device which uses your device's location you can edit your location settings by going to location reporting and location history on your Android or iOS device at any time now here's a big one how do I choose the best antivirus app for my Android device well the short answer is you don't Android has enough security built into it to protect you from the most common tasks that you will do the danger comes in when you one root which technically does increase the vulnerability of your device at least to some measure but the most common risk is when you go to non Google Play Store sites to download apps China has some common ones you don't want to go there you are running a risk to really corrupting your device so don't do that all right this is where I normally say thank you for watching Edward army and connect with me here and Android brothers over there but not going to say that today what I'm going to say is that I have put in some hard freaking our clues into these Android Q&A shows before and those of you who got the clues and we're able to answer it got a t-shirt or a Google Play card gift card but clearly those questions were way too easy here I thought they were hard here's an example I put a tiny tiny tiny little clue in a tiny tiny tiny part of the screen for one frame that's a half a second and people got the clue 16 minutes after the video is published early on a Sunday morning clearly way too easy so I am taking this to a whole other level for the next four QA is kind of four there will be a clue tiny tiny little misleading screwed up crazy clue that will lead to one fundamental question or the answer to one question and that question is what is the next big leap forward in 2007 the iPhone came out and boom smartphones exploded what's the next big leap forward you can't just say Oh wearables does that's an obvious one right or Android one or something I'm looking for an idea not just a word but an idea and it will start to shape as as we go through these next four cue days so the clue has already been in this video or it will be or it is right now you don't know but it's somewhere and there'll be at least one clue in all of the next four q and A's good luck what will be the next big leap forward see you later on Android QA