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“There were rotary dial phones, we waited years to get access to one, and getting access to that phone changed our lives.”
Google has begun its questioning of its own CEO by pointing out the value it has brought to the world and his own relatively humble background growing up in Chennai in the south of India.
He got to mention Android Go, an effort to bring Android phones to more of the world, and how Google Play efforts include the “security and safety of the platform.”
He’s now suggesting developers on Google Play pay 15 percent or less, and yet: “We invest 10s of thousands of engineers to build Android, which we provide free of charge to OEMs around the world and I think the model serves our mission.”
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