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Samsung may be tempted to fork Android, but this will mean no Google Play (in addition to no Google Maps and others), and Samsung is incapable of growing an ecosystem of developers and apps around their platform the size of Google Play.

Microsoft, Apple and Google have this in their DNA. Phone manufacturers, like Nokia and Samsung don't. If they could have build their own Android / their own Google Play, they would have done so already.

parent bad_user 14 years ago

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