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		css771 on Sept 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps Google does not "sell" Android to you. It's free for anyone to use. Take it up with the OEMs.

josephlord on Sept 29, 2012 [–]

You are right they don't "sell" Android to you they enter commercial agreements with manufacturers to provide them with Android enabled with Google Services imposing significant conditions on them.

Then they sell you and your data to advertisers.

I'd rather pay for something than be sold.

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