[millstone]

If a market is to be anything, it must be people buying and selling stuff. Unlike MS and Windows, nobody buys Android, and Google certainly doesn't sell it.

Google built Android but does not control it. What Google controls is:

1. The Android marks, like the green robot

2. The closed-source Google services: Play, Maps, etc.

Those are Google's levers. Any smartphone vendor who wants to use the above must agree to other terms, like making Google the default search engine.

In Russia or China, Android phones without Google services are very common. Google can hardly be said to control those markets.