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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by mcphage on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:11AM (#20000654)
If those companies were interested in investing the billions required for such a venture, they wouldn’t have gotten into this situation in the first place.
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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by fauigerzigerk on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:40AM (#20001309)
I don't think it's that. After network effects kick in, the chances for creating a viable OS are extremely slim. They could have invested three times what Google has invested in Android and still fail.
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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by jimclegg on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:30AM (#20002584)
Almost 3 billion people will be online in India and China alone, and they aren't strongly interested in sharing domestic private data with foreign entities (Facebook, Google, Apple).

Creating another OS seems like an inevitability.

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