Google may have killed the Android industry yesterday, introducing “Pixel-first” features and taking on its biggest partner, Samsung, at the high end of the fragmented market.

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Samsung management may rue the day they swapped their profitable $10 billion/year Apple contracts for a chance to open up the Android market for Google and HTC. They probably already do.

Google came across as so confident to be beating Samsung at the high end that it didn’t even mention the dominant Android device maker. Instead it traded barbs at iPhone, immediately positioning itself in direct competition with both Apple and Samsung.

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