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> here is an interesting article about how it dominates Chinese smartphones but Google isn't getting any return on that investment (80% of Android phones in China ship with Baidu as the search provider).

They still maintain Google as the app-store though? So Google gets ~30% of every app/media-item sold?




I'm not sure that they do. AFAIK, they take open-source Android (that is, with no Google apps) and build on it.


Doesn't Google's App Store tend towards free apps moreso than others? I don't have an Android phone but I remember that was the case previously. Angry Birds was a paid app on both Apple's and Microsoft's store, but free on Android for some reason.


no, most androids don't even have Google app store in China. When we ship our apps we have a bot pushing to over 20 android markets.




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