Well, if only. You pretty much need to live in South Korea to buy them…

Google is being forced by the EU to decouple their core, profitable products, from Android. Which opens up opportunities for big players with big market share.

Samsung and the flavours.

Samsung sell so many phones that they can sell different versions of each model, a Google version and a Microsoft version.

One has Google’s email, calendar, search and so on built-in by default. The other has the Microsoft equivalent. No antitrust laws apply because the consumer is a given a choice at the very beginning. It could be argued that it is an antitrust duoply, but no other quality eco-systems exist for Samsung to offer.

Samsung can then seek kickbacks from Google or Microsoft to promote their services.

Or, Samsung could just end up with one Microsoft-dominated system. Microsoft will pay them generously to get the Bing search engine into mobile hands. They’ll get away with it for a few years, and then merely need to change it when EU regulators complain.