[emodendroket]

If it were so easy Chinese companies would have already done it, having both more resources and an obvious incentive.

[oblio]

They have done it. Do you know how the Chinese smartphone app market works?

[emodendroket]

As far as I'm aware almost everything is still Android, even if they're not using the Play Store.

[oblio]

Yeah, 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]

But they haven't gotten their own fork off the ground so they're still dependent on Google for continued updates.

[oblio]

Yeah, 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]

Ultimately, 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.