Google is in fact forcing all device manufacturers to use Gapps and do many other things or else lose access to all the features that make Android be Android. C

Google is in fact forcing all device manufacturers to use Gapps and do many other things or else lose access to all the features that make Android be Android. Companies like Sony, Samsung, HTC are only allowed to ship official Android devices if they want to continue to be able to do mobile-related business with Google. For instance if Philips wanted to ship an Android TV without spyware, they would have to remove some Google apps => anti-fragmentation clause kicks in => Philips isn't allowed to sell official Android devices any more. But they can continue to sell Philips-Android devices which nobody would want because they're missing critical features which would be disabled by Google shutting down their official Android access. So actually Google has Philips by the balls, even if Android is open source. The EU doesn't like that.