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by AndyJ1972 4125 days ago
Like Apple, Google just want you in the ecosystem.

The money is really in the "App Stores" as such.

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Vendor lockin is certainly huge (especially data for Google to drive their main ad business), but Apple's app store is a fraction (something like 15b/180b. I'd say vendor lockin is still much, much more important to drive their hardware sales, despite making very big steps in earning from software (app stores) in the past decade.