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by mike22223333 2789 days ago
And allowing the Google Play Services and Play Store to grow so big that their own store (in case relations go wrong with Google, they have a backup) can not compete.
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They also completely underfunded the development of both Tizen and, especially, their app store. They offshored development off it to Eastern Europe as well, and even there it was less than 100 people, and not the best ones in the market (they weren't paying premium wages for Eastern Europe).

So if this is Samsung "pushing", they're truly a very sucky company.

This is lack of will on Samsung's part, not some magical market advantage on Google's part.