The government is not asking for Google to sell Android right away, but it wants that option if other measures it imposes don’t work to restore competition. In general:

For the avoidance of doubt, Google must not provide itself with preferential access to Android or Google-owned apps or data as compared to the access it provides to all other GSEs and AI Products…

Google cannot:

  • “make any Google GSE [general search engine], Search Text Ads, or AI Product (including on-device AI) mandatory on Android Devices”
  • “reduce, prevent, or otherwise interfere with the distribution of rival GSE, Search Text Ads, or AI Products on Android Devices”
    • askatOPM
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      12 days ago

      Sadly, you are probably right.

  • SatouKazuma
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    11 days ago

    I’d love to see Android divested and bought by a non-profit body, but expecting the US to do anything right is several universes too far. America was a mistake…