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by georgiecasey 1370 days ago
so Apple and Samsung get most of the profits, and Google has to pay a huge fine for doing the open source thing and letting 3rd parties build handsets. If Google just built their own handset, kept Android closed-source and charged €800 a phone, the EU would have no problem with that but we'd all be worse off.
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Maybe that's what Google should do in the EU. Refuse to licence the play store.

If they did, then I'm sure Samsung would develop an app store to compete.

Samsung already has an appstore