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If it were so easy Chinese companies would have already done it, having both more resources and an obvious incentive.
by emodendroket 5y ago
If it were so easy Chinese companies would have already done it, having both more resources and an obvious incentive.
- oblio 5y agoThey have done it. Do you know how the Chinese smartphone app market works?
- emodendroket 5y agoAs far as I'm aware almost everything is still Android, even if they're not using the Play Store.
- oblio 5y agoYeah, but Android is Open Source by design. All these governments don't have an issue with the code, they have issues with project governance.
- emodendroket 5y agoBut they haven't gotten their own fork off the ground so they're still dependent on Google for continued updates.
- oblio 5y agoYeah, but with enough of these "nudges", maybe it finally happens. The EU has already fined Google, South Korea is adding these new rules, I think even the US is thinking about some regulation, let's see what happens in a few years.
- emodendroket 5y agoUltimately, my guess is that the military/China conflict angle prevails over antitrust when it comes to Google. But I could be wrong. Certainly China has cracked down on its side, which I didn't anticipate.