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This is really cool, but, longer term, what happens if Google makes android closed source? I feel this is a very real risk.

>>joelth+(OP)
They won't because they literally control the mobile market by having Android open source.

>>worlds+a1
Now that their market is established, I don't think open-source is a requirement anymore. They would of course share with hardware vendors strategically.

>>joelth+m5
True. All the big OEMs are in too deep with Android now, there's no going back. They could easily make it code share under NDA instead of open source.

>>wkat42+cb
Huawei proved that they can move away from Android... unfortunately they did not go for a hard fork of AOSP but for a proprietary, new OS.

>>joelth+(OP)
Not sure if the big manufacturers would want to depend on a proprietary Google OS. Samsung does make a lot of changes to the OS, for instance.

>>palata+ic
> 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.