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on Oct 8, 2024
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Google must open Android for third-party stores, r...
Microsoft also “incentivized” OEMs to not install competing browsers by threatening to remove their OEM licensing. Didn’t Google do something similar?
lern_too_spel
on Oct 8, 2024
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No. They just threatened to remove access to the Play Store.
sbuk
on Oct 12, 2024
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So, something similar then. OK, not as onerous as removing the whole OS, which they can’t do because Android uses an open license, but the next big thing. No play store, no Google services. May as well remove the OS.
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