Microsoft gets Android Apps, Amazon expands its app store and Google is shunted out of the Microsoft eco-system.
I see this as an absolute brilliant thing to happen to the app ecosystem.
I really hope innovation accelerates on the Amazon App store.
We'll see about this one. Last I checked, half of Microsoft's own apps couldn't run on Android if Play Services was disabled.
And it's very likely Google will find ways to retaliate against Microsoft for working with the Amazon Appstore here. They are pretty aggressive against forks. Honestly, I would suspect the next Duo won't be able to run Play Services, because Microsoft dared to work with a competing Android app store.
Just speculating - I know nothing about Android support at Microsoft.
Seems like all the major OS are betting that mobile is going to be the focus of future native app development and don't want desktop users to miss out.
No one can match the level of integration Apple had made on Windows and Android platform.
We'll see what kind of limitations and bugs to show up.
Same as Microsoft copying Chrome and calling it Edge, users have another browser, now with MS telemetry etc. instead of Google. Good for user choice but hardly innovation.
(I don't really follow how your comment related to the issue.)
iOS is 54.33% of all tablets, Android is 45.57%. Microsoft, Amazon, and everyone else combined account for 0.1%
It doesn't seem like an ecosystem Google has the time to worry about.