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I'm really worried about Google's potential for an anti-trust lawsuit. Giving away free phones, destroying profit margins on competitors, and using those users to increase marketshare in other areas they dominate seems incredibly risky to me. Having a majority share of mobile phones for free or less than free, tied into Google's SaaS services that can be used for free and using them to increase reliance on Google services that are made profitable by their tight vertically integrated ad solutions worries me.

I like Google. I don't want to see them turn a late 90's Microsoft because they started to overreach. Dumping is not a good strategy for flying under the FTC's radar. Can anyone put my fears to rest?



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