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Google could absolutely close-source enough of Android to make it essentially closed. As I posted elsewhere: Couldn't Google have had Samsung OEM phones? Wit

Google could absolutely close-source enough of Android to make it essentially closed. As I posted elsewhere: Couldn't Google have had Samsung OEM phones? With co-branding? And all of the profits going to Samsung? This would merely be a different way to structure access to Android, right? Android is closed source, but literally everything else is the same... Except now it's not "anti-competitive," because the phone manufacturers are not "competitors" to Google.

kilotaras 8y ago
> Couldn't Google have had Samsung OEM phones? If 1. Android still reached 80% of market 2. Terms of OEM prohibited Samsung from making phones with another OS That would be the same anticompetitive violation
- VikingCoder 8y ago
  The terms wouldn't prohibit Samsung from making phones with another OS. The terms would say that Samsung installs the version of Android 2 (the new and closed source one) that Google tells it to. As manufacturing partners are always told what to do.