> Closed source apps are not the threat > Yes, they are. See > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html

> Closed source apps are not the threat > Yes, they are. See > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html Well, they should. But I wouldn't call a closed-source messaging app (which you can replace with qksms) proof that AOSP is over. >According to the EU, they didn’t – they abused their market power to extort companies to force them to bundle their products. I meant legal to contrast "force" (closing the source), not that it's not illegal. They could really open-source everything and still mandate people to use Hangouts. >Yet Google cracked down even more on OEMs that shipped non-Google Android in markets where Google Android exists in the meantime. They definitely saw a threat. Did they fight CM? What did they do to make CM's life difficult? >See the EU argument again: Google does not have the right to restrict their services in that way, due to having too much market power. They can not discriminate against the environments their products will be used in. But they can refuse to license the Google Play store to entities outside of OEMs, as long as the terms aren't discriminatory.