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“I see partnerships, not market power.”

That’s Google’s economist Catherine Tucker, making an interesting suggestion that fits her proposed market definition: she suggests that OEMs are not customers for Android, and thus Google isn’t a seller in a market because she sees them as partnerships instead.

Epic moved on to attacking some of Tucker’s earlier points about competing with Apple, suggesting that whether Apple has a better product that indeed competes with Google’s products doesn’t tell us anything about whether Apple “constrains the Play Store as a competitor.”

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