Google tries to breathe new life into Android One
 

But internally, Android One was seen as an attempt to avoid another China, where Android is popular but comes without Google's services. It was also a hedge against the rising power of Facebook, which is becoming, in many parts of the developing world, the gateway to the Web. So far, it has done neither. And the audacious hardware program has been anything but.

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