Why did Google give Android away for free?

But they could do that because it didn’t cost them hundreds of billions of dollars to create Android and they could retain 99% of control over end users.

	▲	cdud3 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because Android was the door to there services. That's very much the same situation we have with model creation right now. China understood it, they act on it and as a result they are winning.