Samsung’s smartphones, assuming you buy the international versions, come with two stores for your to get apps and video content. There’s the Google Play Store, of course, and the Samsung Hub. Operators in America bundle Amazon’s app store on most of their Android devices, so now you’re up to three. But focusing on Samsung proper for a second, without them, Android wouldn’t be Android. As sad as that statement sounds, everyone knows it true.

Today the company is announcing that they’re going to go behind Google’s back and start accepting PayPal for content purchased from the Samsung hub. In case you haven’t heard of Google Wallet, that’s the search giant’s attempt at overtaking PayPal. Yes, Google has done a horrible job at actually competing with PayPal, but that doesn’t mean they like it if their biggest partner goes ahead and partners with one of their fiercest competitors.

But Android is open and free and is powered by unicorns, you might be thinking to yourself. And you’re right. Just look at China, where almost none of the Android phones being sold there have any Google services installed whatsoever. Again, Samsung isn’t just some other Chinese OEM, they’re Samsung, so for them to do this is a pretty big slap in the face, at least in my opinion.

Does anyone know how popular the Samsung Hub actually is by any chance?