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Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggi...
Bad news for smaller app developers: when Android becomes monopoly, apps will be pulled left and right from Google Play.
nopreserveroot
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For what reason? I would wager that 3rd party stores would gain popularity should that happen.
fuayenah
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If that happened, Google would stop letting you install those.
bearcobra
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And you'd likely see a fork with support of the major handset makers and companies like Amazon. Google has a lot of control thru Play Services, but something that hostile would be a recipe for a split.
SEJeff
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Oh right, something like Cyanogenmod, right?
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They've been looking into getting rid of aosp for years by the means of neglecting it. So they'd just have to stop publishing the code.
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They would be sued so hard and fast that they would travel back in time to register the original googol domain.
bdcravens
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This move by Apple isn't in response to losing marketshare as much as iPhone owners not upgrading.
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