So I decided to write this post to let other people, specially from the US, what Google is doing to android in other countries, and which I think is a clear "change of politic" to the openness of the android ecosystem. I live in Spain, and apart from being excluded from a lot of Google products, like google home (that just arrived to my country a few weeks ago), the original Google pixel or even being denied guarantee for devices bought here , etc... (This is a post about android I don't want to keep going). I just want to talk about android today, my first smartphone was a Nexus 4, and I chose it over other phones mostly because Android. I liked the idea of having a phone that I could tune, I could modify anything, even chose my own build of the OS, one that fitted all my needs. And I loved it, from the launcher, to the file system, I was able to mess with anything. Today I tried to install Google News on my phone, which came with the old News and Weather. As always ...