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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+(OP)
The Fire devices seem like they are on life support from a technical point of view (even if Amazon is making money from them). Their fork is really out of date.

>>chasil+(OP)
Also Meta Horizon OS is based on AOSP. This will probably also affect their development.

>>la_fay+84
Why would a second company freeloading kernel and services from Google change Google's OSdev roadmap? Google could just say to Meta 'fine, fork and maintain it yourself, you're a grown-up company' and continue on with whatever nefarious rug-pull closed source pivot to Fuschia gambit that they might be plotting.

>>chasil+(OP)
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.