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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
At a strategic level, the shotgun marriage for Android could be accurately described as "searchbox placement + market share".
The Androids took the market share thing _very_ seriously, while the short-term management culture of Google meant that as long as Search could get it's search bar in front of users, they didn't think much harder about the ecosystem.
Which meant Play sort of flew under the radar, as did the underhanded anti-web things the Androids demanded.
/cc @chriscoyier @tomayac