One potentially problematic aspect about Samsung’s rise as the world’s top Android vendor is that it has literally crowded out smaller competitors and is the only company in the world that consistently turns a profit selling Android phones. Sundar Pichai, who heads both the Android and Chrome OS divisions at Google, told the D11 conference on Thursday that he’s not concerned about the overwhelming power that Samsung wields in the Android ecosystem and said that Google and Samsung have a “symbiotic relationship” that benefits both companies. “We owe Samsung a lot,” Pichai explained. “They owe us a lot, too.” But just because Samsung has been getting all the attention in the Android world lately doesn’t mean that Google has forgotten

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