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MS can do their own Android. And it wouldn't even be a terribly stupid ideea. They already sell laptops, so why not phones?


Microsoft already sells an Android "phone" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-duo


Surprised with this they didn't do like Amazon and make a ms version of android


They probably have a decent estimate of the investment cost it would take to compete with "Google Play Services". Seems a big part of why they are working with Amazon for this Windows support.


They supposedly worked with Google on this, which rules that out.




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