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> Android? Good luck getting an app in the app store without Google accidentally killing your company.

Kinda painting with a broad brush about the world's most popular operating system with an 85% mobile marketshare.

>Search? Nope... Elasticsearch now dominates that space.

Again, being really selective here ignoring the virtual monopoly on consumer search.

Android was actually a Google acquisition as well...

More of an acquihire. Even the version they showed in 2007 (two years after the acquisition) bared little resemblance with what it became.

Isn't the change mainly due to the iPhone being released? Before that it was a copy of the blackberry look & feel