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> Apple can push a iOS point release that just includes an update a single system app

Which is inefficient and inconvenient. Google updates Chrome every 6 weeks while you are sleeping, as with all other Play Store apps. With an iOS system update, you have to click 5 different dialog boxes and go through several steps such as rebooting.

> and users will actually get to download it quickly and there's no specially carrier approval bullshit

Chrome updates don't go through carrier approval. Since Google does not need to update Android to be able to update Chrome, it's hard to understand your point here.

> that forced Google to go with a downloadable browser app pushed through the Play Store.

Chrome did not replace AOSP browser. Android still has its own browser.

> Being forced to use the Play Store for system functionalities has not only destroyed the "open source" nature Android once had

Chrome is not a "system functionality". It's an optional app you can download from the store. Android still has its own open source browser.



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