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by oblio 1676 days ago
They have done it. Do you know how the Chinese smartphone app market works?
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As far as I'm aware almost everything is still Android, even if they're not using the Play Store.
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.

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

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.