Comment by danaris

Not merely a foreign third party: one operating fairly cozily within a country with a hostile and erratic government.

If Trump ordered Google, tomorrow, to put some egregious measure in place in Android (or Chrome, or Google Search), I, personally, would not want to bet that they would refuse him. And frankly, I don't know that I can even imagine the kinds of things he might try to get them to do.

We absolutely need better competition in smartphone OSes—we need it across the board in tech, really, from a wide array of countries.