Android being an open source project negates most of the scary anti-competitive possibilities. A handset maker could ship an Android device that was completely

Android being an open source project negates most of the scary anti-competitive possibilities. A handset maker could ship an Android device that was completely independent of Google services. It's a fair playing field for Google's competitors. If Microsoft wanted to they goto a handset maker like HTC and offer the same revenue sharing model via Bing and other Microsoft services bundled with an Android handset. Inversely you could build a handset not running Android and still use Google services on your own OS. If Microsoft had adopted a similar level of openness and equal access they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and probably got the same exact results in the end. IE was a better browser than Netscape at this time. It would have won on its own technical merits. ActiveX and these other Microsoft proprietary schemes failed on their own merits despite IE having enormous browser market share. Even with IE being bundled on Windows it hasn't stopped Firefox and WebKit based browsers from growing in popularity. Microsoft gained nothing from their anti-competitive moves. I don't think Google will repeat the same mistake.