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Did Pichai want to “revisit the rules” so rivals wouldn’t “take our ecosystem away?”

Pichai has been presented with a typed summary of a meeting between him and other Android leaders on April 16th, 2013 — where he suggested the following (as paraphrased by Google that week):

Should we revisit the rules, now we aren’t an upstart open source os? Not that we should stop anything we are doing right now, but over next two weeks take the time to step back and look at the overall situation. Nightmare scenario is we lose control of Android ... can’t take what we have here for granted.”

These were some of Android leader Hiroshi Lockheimer’s two cents:

How do we prioritize and sequence thing (sic) so we don’t lose control. The world is a different place back in 2007, and now there are companies that want to take our ecosystem away.”

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