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Google's Trojan Horse: Hosting Rivals to Control Them A decade after Aptoide was booted from Google Play, the app store is quietly returning—not as a competitor, but as a tenant inside Google's walled garden. This isn't a victory for open Android. It's a masterclass in regulatory capture disguised as compliance. When courts force you to open your gates, the smartest move isn't to refuse. It's to build a checkpoint inside them. Google understands this better than most. The Epic v. Google settlement mandate to host rival app stores on Android should have fragmented Google's distribution monopoly. Instead, Google has engineered…