A big reason for the store was to protect advertising. Google needed, and needs, a way to assure that mobile phone providers and carriers do not lock Google out of mobile advertising, as Apple is trying to do.
Android is a means to accomplish this, but so long as others sit between Google and users, others who can frame the Android experience to their liking, it will not be the master of its future.
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