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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by jldugger on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:12PM (#23434023)
Android would probably be spin-offable via the same strategy that technically makes Mozilla independent: pay for search engine placement. And then pay for all the services it connects to like Maps, Gmail, etc.

It'd def be messy to untangle backends though. One imagines that the play store relies heavily on CDNs by Google, as one random small example from the haystack of papercuts.

Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by jackson1442 on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:35PM (#23434281)
A large part of commercial Android is part of the mysterious "Google Play Services." I'm sure that would be a nightmare to uncouple from Google.