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I wonder how long they could play that game before running afoul of antitrust legislation.

As long as they wanted, as long as they weren't anticompetitive.

... and operated below the market share (70%) that attracts antitrust scrutiny.

In mobile OS, I think they can avoid being classified having 70% or anywhere near it since Android is technically open source and anyone can fork it, and several flavors such as the kindle version of Android aren't under their control.

In the carrier space, they'd be far from owning a lot of market share.

They just need to make sure that if they acquire such power that they restrain from anticompetitive practices afforded to them by their position.

That would be a very interesting move if Google bought T-Mobile. I'd rather see Google buy T-Mobile than AT&T.

T-Mobile

That's the joke.