Thread: Google will stop bundling its apps on Android phones in response to EU fine
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Old 10-23-2018, 09:18 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
It's nothing to do with Alexa/Google Assistant. It goes way back to 2015 when Amazon was backdooring their own app store on to Android devices. The Amazon app was banned from Google Play for a while.

Amazon responded by blocking Chromecast from their store and the feud has gone on since then.
Dragging users into the fight is all about Alexa.
The fight over storefronts didn't mess up users until Google released their speaker.
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