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>>transp+(OP)
I hope that this action, along with Google's refusal to correctly safeguard and segregate apps, costs Google all of Android in the long term. Neither deserves to exist.

Any thoughts on Linux phones?

>>OutOfH+km
Unchecked Apple without real competition would be worse than the status quo.

>>add-su+An
That is a misrepresentation because Samsung, Huawei, and various Linux vendors each will have their own answer, their own alterative. In no universe will Apple be without competition. Apple is not even a consideration since it doesn't allow unapproved app installation anyway.

>>OutOfH+ho
Android only ever had a chance because it is one ecosystem. Developers aren't going to develop for five slightly-different ecosystems in a trench coat.

>>odo124+Ep
Apps that run on the Kindle Fire can't use Google Mobile Services, and the Amazon appstore is missing many well-known titles.

The Play Store is mostly absent from China, and I really don't know how that ecosystem works.

Was there one ecosystem?

>>chasil+NF
You're too young to remember Symbian and Java phone ecosystem mess, are you? Or even Android of around 2.x era, where getting an app doesn't mean it works on your phone?

>>izacus+cV
Oh, my sweet summer child, my first classroom exposure was CP/M.

>>chasil+ms1
Then you should know better :))