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No, paying off phone manufacturers and companies to not create or preinstall third party app stores on to devices is what hurt Google here
by LordKeren 3y ago
No, paying off phone manufacturers and companies to not create or preinstall third party app stores on to devices is what hurt Google here
- wvenable 3y agoWhich is similar to what Microsoft did with PC manufacturers to kill off alternative operating systems.
- jefftk 3y agoRight, which is not something Apple "needed" to do because they didn't allow competition in the iOS phone manufacturing business.
- LordKeren 3y agoGoogle didn’t need to pay these companies either. They chose to do it so they could keep their play store monopoly. And they may have just burning billions in profits because of it
- jefftk 3y agoRight, which is why I put the term in quotes. But Apple got that for free, since they didn't open up manufacturing.
- Dylan16807 3y agoI think you mean "and", not "no". The semi-open ecosystem is a prerequisite to the payoffs.