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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by nojvek on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:18AM (#17559203)
That would work if Google was really good at their own hardware. They aren’t.

Android’s rise to dominance was mostly because of partners like Samsung.

Personal preference but Samsung phones are the only ones which I see are comparable to latest iPhones in terms of speed, features and price.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by VikingCoder on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @12:36PM (#17559838)
Couldn't Google have had Samsung OEM phones?

With co-branding?

And all of the profits going to Samsung?

This would merely be a different way to structure access to Android, right? Android is closed source, but literally everything else is the same...

Except now it's not "anti-competitive," because the phone manufacturers are not "competitors" to Google.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by mattigames on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:52AM (#17559467)
Yeah, Google need to buy Samsumg or the closest one they can get and start doing quality hardware.
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