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Android is a real Linux

Actually, a "few bent cops" do mean that all police officers are like that to some degree. Obviously they aren't all going out and committing crime, but by not policing each other,…

On the exact same day as that felon fled the police and crashed a car, millions of ordinary citizens obeyed the law and worked to make the world a better place... But none of that …

It's not a duopoly - anyone can use Android for free, and many do.

They're just trying to avoid having a single company, Microsoft, dominate the industry again.

Google gives away all their client platforms as open source (i.e. Chrome and Android), so it's hardly a power play when compared with the other options.

There are multiple players in the map market, Microsoft themselves being one of them. Google are competing against Microsoft by asking customers to choose between their integrated …

It's just a platform they use to deliver their services to their customers - the same way that everyone else does.

They see Google maps as a strong enough brand that they think people will avoid Windows Phone if it doesn't have it. I think it's a good move. The last thing we need is our one cha…

I don't see it as at odds with how they market themselves. They position themselves as providing an Open, non-proprietary option as an alternative to monolithic and traditional clo…

They're the only ones providing an Open Source mobile OS. Without them, we'd have only proprietary solutions controlled by single corporations. Having put in all this effort to pro…

The FTC cleared them of antitrust. This is just normal business competition.

Not adding value to your competitor's products for free is simply competitive and part of normal business. "Anti-competitive" is a different thing and means using market power to s…

Because iOS is still influential and they are hedging their bets.

Google have provided a free, open source alternative to Windows Phone. There is nothing 'evil' about them not supporting other platforms.

Why should Google provide their service for free to their competitor's customers?

There is nothing 'Anti-Competitive' about not providing your free service to customers of your competitor. If people want Google services they can choose Android. It's worth rememb…

It's well known that Android has overtaken iOS in terms of the base OS. A hardware advantage that Apple had is almost gone now, so the only thing missing is content. I don't think …

Because that investment will pay off over time as more and more people move to Android, and a platform that isn't controlled by a single company will make innovation easier for eve…

Android is Open Source, so it belongs to everyone. Content producers need to do their part alongside developers to make it great, even if that means putting in more investment than…

Openness seems to be a guiding principle for Google. It seems inconceivable that they want to keep it closed to the web forever, so we can probably take their statements about prot…