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The Android licence is free and the Play Store infrastructure has to support tens of millions of devices.

I’m not saying this is an acceptable level, but Samsung ain’t putting a dollar toward Google running the store, in fact, they’d much prefer to run and maintain their own.

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That’s not true. Phone manufacturers need to pay if they want to include Google Play in their devices, it’s not free. It can cost as much as $40 per device.

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Thanks for the correction, I was unaware

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I guess hoovering up all your data ain’t enough.

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I don’t even get why having the store on more devices is supposed to “cost” google anything.

It’s a store. They get a cut from every transaction. Why wouldn’t they want it to be on everything?

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