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No need to spam the same post over and over and over again simply to get your post count up; I read it once in reply to a previous post, there is no need to repeat it over and over again. As much as I'd love to believe in the benevolent dictatorship of Google, we have already seen it take a nasty turn in the case of Apple and the iOS platform - which is the reason why I've stuck to my good old iPod Classic and ZTE R6 Mobile phone. Remember when Apple was the darling of geeks? there is nothing stopping Google from making the 'tough decisions' when they need to even if it means angering a few geeks along the way. "

I wasn't spamming ... I personally think this is very problematical. Google have already zapped two applications out of existence in the Android universe.

One the one hand, there is nobody in a better position than Google to take on such a "Android app police" role. They could be everybody's Android anti-malware monitor, without taking up anybody's Android CPU power. That bit is pretty neat, really.

However, having said that, they also effectively have built in a "veto" for themselves on what can be installed on Android phones. If Google don't like it they can wipe it from everyone's Android phone. In fact, if someone else (maybe the government or the RIAA or MPAA) don't like it, perhaps they may be able to force Google to zap it from everyone's Android phone.

That aspect of it seems even worse than Apple's shenanigans.

So how about a bit of sane discussion on Google's real-world provisions here, what Google are actually doing and planning to do, instead of pontificating from on high about how users cannot be relied upon to do the best thing by themselves. Apparently, for Andoid phones, they aren't going to be asked to.