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Back in October, Microsoft announced that come November, it would be able to finally start selling Xbox games via its app on Android devices. This, as The Verge points out<\/a>, has not yet happened. Now Xbox president Sarah Bond has taken to social media to lay the blame for this delay squarely at Google\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n

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Back in October, Microsoft announced that come November, it would be able to finally start selling Xbox games via its app on Android devices. This, as The Verge points out, has not yet happened. Now Xbox president Sarah Bond has taken to social media to lay the blame for this delay squarely at Google\u2019s feet. 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