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Reaffirming choice and openness on Android and Google Play (blog.google)
3 points by xnx on Dec 19, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


There's clearly some bitterness here of "we're much less controlling than Apple, how come we're the ones in trouble?". Which is a reasonable point.


Because outside of the USA, android has 75% or more market share, and so their global dominance in things is at scale, bigger than Apple. And, since Apple is a single vertically integrated channel, it comes with the territory: its closed at root. Android however has diverse supply chains and does things in a way which encourages "yes but.." questions to be asked.

Also, although I have some trouble saying this right, there is a legal dictum in general that somebody else being a bastard doesn't legally justify you being one too: so "but them" is legally meaningless: if Apple is bad, in due course they should be made to pay. Google is taken into law as itself, unless the law decides to bring a group into the process.




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