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Bad news for smaller app developers: when Android becomes monopoly, apps will be pulled left and right from Google Play.

• nopreserveroot 10y ago
  For what reason? I would wager that 3rd party stores would gain popularity should that happen.
  • fuayenah 10y ago
    If that happened, Google would stop letting you install those.
    • arkitaip 10y ago
      They would be sued so hard and fast that they would travel back in time to register the original googol domain.
    • bearcobra 10y ago
      And you'd likely see a fork with support of the major handset makers and companies like Amazon. Google has a lot of control thru Play Services, but something that hostile would be a recipe for a split.
      • SEJeff 10y ago
        Oh right, something like Cyanogenmod, right? ducks
      • fuayenah 10y ago
        They've been looking into getting rid of aosp for years by the means of neglecting it. So they'd just have to stop publishing the code.
• bdcravens 10y ago
  This move by Apple isn't in response to losing marketshare as much as iPhone owners not upgrading.