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How Amazon could loosen Google's iron grip on Android (ars technica)How Amazon could loosen Google's iron grip on Android (ars technica)Posted Mar 30, 2011 8:49 UTC (Wed) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463)Parent article: How Amazon could loosen Google's iron grip on Android (ars technica)
> If Amazon's Appstore proves to be a viable alternative to Google's own
> Android Market, it could weaken the search giant's control over the > Android platform
So in essence, giving Amazon control of it instead of Google?
Right now, there's a war on, and it's about control over _books_ (and by extension, education and so on). And it's not like Amazon is a nice player, they're right now developing a very tight grip on the whole publishing-business. And of course, Google also has an interest in books...
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How Amazon could loosen Google's iron grip on Android (ars technica) Posted Mar 30, 2011 11:21 UTC (Wed) by MKesper (guest, #38539) [Link] "Someone" wrote a nice essay about that part of the story, years ago: The Right to Read. By the way, today is Document Freedom Day!
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