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> payments or discounts to mobile phone manufacturers in return for pre-installing Google's Play Store with Google Search My read is that Google leverages its
by throwaway41597 10y ago
> payments or discounts to mobile phone manufacturers in return for pre-installing Google's Play Store with Google Search
My read is that Google leverages its dominance in the Android app store market to protect its search business by some sort of deal that makes manufacturers install both. If I understand correctly, the problem is that, say, Bing may match the price Google is paying a manufacturer for search, but Google may then make the manufacturer pay for the Play Store somehow.
Though the article is too vague to be sure.
- vertex-four 10y agoYou can't have the Play Store if you don't abide by a set of rules. Having Google Search as default is part of those rules. If you have Bing as default, you don't get the Play Store or the rest of Google Android.