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Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware by noisem4ker on Monday January 13, 2020 @03:33PM (#22038274)
Android isn't intrinsically tied to Google, unlike iOS is to Apple. Once upon a time, Android had its own, neutral Browser app. It was then replaced with Google Chrome, just like Email was replaced with Gmail. A pointless branding exercise in my opinion.
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Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware by ehsankia on Monday January 13, 2020 @03:52PM (#22038429)
> Android isn't intrinsically tied to Google

Except Google spends billions in both engineering and infrastructure to develop, test and maintain it. Including those apps is part of how they fund said development.

But these days, people expect everything to be completely free and tech companies to do things out of the goodness of their heart for no financial benefit.

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Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware by Cougher on Monday January 13, 2020 @04:25PM (#22038791)
This response says everything it needed to say in the first sentence without the gratuitous snark of the second.
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