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> Not sure if the big manufacturers would want to depend on a proprietary Google OS.

They already do; Google's flavour of Android adds plenty of proprietary components on top of AOSP.





They depend on the Play Service and Play Store, that's for sure. But I'm pretty sure they know it's a risk already.

Don't get me wrong: they are locked-in, that's a fact. And to be fair they benefit from all the work of Google on the OS. But that's not a reason to desire to go further and lose even more control.


What exactly are they going to do? Support GNU/Linux?

If Google goes proprietary with AOSP? They could fork AOSP, or go with their own proprietary system (like Huawei is successfully doing).

Linux distros (including non-GNU/Linux distros, e.g. busybox/Linux distros) are way behind for smartphones. I don't think they would switch to that.


Are you saying that developing their own system is easier than using existing one that needs some tinkering?



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