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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Bummer.
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Preinstalled doesn't mean compulsory.
Besides, MS preinstalling some apps is no different than Samsung, etc putting their apps on their phones.
Try looking in the Play store: MS has quietly put out dozens of (highly rated) Android apps. Not all are for the corporate market.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ation&hl=en_US
They'll probably have more by the time Duo ships.
This is just MS going all in back to their multiplatform roots.
(Not sure if it's still true but for a few years MS made more money off android than Google.)
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/micros...g-app-support/
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That's not the end of Microsoft's Android embrace, however. It sounds as if Microsoft is considering enabling Android apps to run on some of its future Windows devices. A Forbes report, citing iHS Markit, which tracks supply-chain metrics, claims Android apps will work on Microsoft's dual-screen Centaurus laptops.
I've asked around a bit, and also hear that Microsoft is at least contemplating this scenario. On Intel-based Centaurus dual-screen devices shipping with the still-unofficially-announced Windows Lite Chrome OS competitor, Microsoft may include support for Android apps in an Android app store. If and when Microsoft also releases ARM-based dual-screen devices, Android apps in an Android store may be part of the scenario, too, my contacts say.
Microsoft has had some noteworthy success in getting its own apps to succeed on Android. Microsoft's Android apps like Launcher and Outlook. Microsoft currently has more than 150 apps from various teams in the Google Play Store, as Microsoft engineers working on Android recently blogged. Of these, five have more than 500 million downloads.
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As Google continues to come under fire over privacy and antitrust issues, Microsoft execs may think they have the opening they need to swoop in and be an Android steward.
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Centaurus = Surface Neo.
More speculation at the source.