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Clarification: their primary motivation is so that they could ensure that at least some part of the mobile market could run their ads, they realizing that mobil
by cpr 16y ago
Clarification: their primary motivation is so that they could ensure that at least some part of the mobile market could run their ads, they realizing that mobile is the future, and that ads are currently their only real source of income.
- ergo98 16y agoAbsolutely true. As a business they don't want to be in a position where they can be cut out of the ecosystem. That's actually an interesting facet of Android -- much was made recently about one of the open handset partners replacing Google with another search engine, but that's exactly how the platform is supposed to work. Google has no free in to all of the platform, beyond the add-ons like Google Mail that the partners would almost certainly want on the phone.