> Sounds like a good thing for consumers and Android device makers, who will no longer be coerced by Google to install its apps "for free". It's a pretty bad th

> Sounds like a good thing for consumers and Android device makers, who will no longer be coerced by Google to install its apps "for free". It's a pretty bad thing for Google in the long term, whose apps will inevitably lose market share. Google apps don't come standard on PCs, yet Chrome and Gmail have majority market share and Google Drive/Docs is widely used (in university everyone used it to collaborate, even profs). And that's on MS' own platform... I really doubt Microsoft or Amazon apps are going to supplant Google apps on Android anytime soon, nor do I think Firefox/Opera/other browsers have a chance against Chrome on Android.