Cory Doctorow on Nostr: In practice, Google uses anticompetitive tricks to prevent app stores from springing ...
In practice, Google uses anticompetitive tricks to prevent app stores from springing up and to dissuade Android users from sideloading. Proving that Google's actions - like paying #Activision $360m as part of #ProjectHug (no, really!) - were intended to prevent new app storesfrom springing up was a big lift for Epic. But they managed it, in large part thanks to Google's own internal communications, wherein executives admitted that this was *exactly* why Project Hug existed.
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