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>>joseph+(OP)
I hope they make it closed source and make us much money out of it as possible for shareholders that is their job and their duty, why are they giving this away for free they have already captured market share by claiming opensource and building a community now all they have to do is make it proprietary and the old opensource version slowly wither and become unstable, then they can charge money for the operating system just like mircrosoft but this time on phone millions and billions of phones, $$$$$. /S (I obviously do not agree with this)

>>mainec+Be
It's a bit disturbing that that might be the plan though.

>>monetu+Jj
But they can already do that, because most people and apps (outside China and maybe some other regions) expect Google Play/Play Services to be present.

>>microt+3m
Amazon maintains their Fire devices with their Android fork.

Huawei maintains their Android fork that runs without the Play store.

Google will not be able to close Android/AOSP without triggering a well-funded fork.

>>chasil+er
I doubt at this point corps are not looking at that option. But then I don’t know what kind of contract these corps have with Google. I have worked at Samsung and they are such a large incompetent but aware software clusterfuck that they would rather want an almost readymade OS on which they will smear paint and sell. Can’t speak of other OEMs.