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Google has been trying to explain from the beginning that the Play Store’s fee is the primary way Google gets paid back for its $40 billion investment in Android over the years. (It also gets advertising revenue, of course.) It also wants credit for opening up the app market from the tight grasp of cellular carriers.
We were supposed to hear from Andy Rubin, the embattled “father of Android,” but we haven’t had any sign that his taped deposition will wind up getting played in court.
Right now, he’s just saying some things about why the early team wanted Android to be designed as an open platform and explaining how hard it was to get an app onto Verizon’s app platform back in the day.
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