>Both. Google has plenty of government contracts, they are undoubtedly pushing for more surveillance,

I don't get it, are the government contracts somehow contingent on them oppressing users and stifling open source?

>we are now in an age where users can create their own apps to do whatever they want within a few hours, sothis risks their Google Play Store profits

If that's the reason, they're doing a pretty poor job, since it's trivially bypassable by running "adb install".