• PhAzE
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    27 days ago

    But that doesn’t speak towards the Apple side, which locks their app store and hardware as well.

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      27 days ago

      Apple has stranglehold over their devices.

      Google has a stranglehold over theirs, and everyone else’s who isn’t either Google or built to serve a sanctioned (by the U.S.) foreign market like China or Russia.

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        27 days ago

        Except samsung ships with their own store on all galaxy devices, even if play is there too. So it doesn’t fit with a stranglehold.

        If google withdrew android to only Google hardware, does that suddenly make them not infringing anymore? Leaving all other phone devs to make their own OS…