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by dublinben 3938 days ago
Despite being open source, Google does not really accept submissions of code from third parties. Yandex does in fact have their own app store, but many apps are only published on the Google Play Store.
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This is untrue. Android has has many contributions from third parties. Samsung, Sony, LG, etc have all contributed to the AOSP project.
> Despite being open source, Google does not really accept submissions of code from third parties.

Source for this?