This is still mind-blowing to me. The people who have an incentive to make it easy to migrate away from Google services on your devices (Samsung, Amazon, Micros

This is still mind-blowing to me. The people who have an incentive to make it easy to migrate away from Google services on your devices (Samsung, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.) should be working together to make an open API for app developers to use that allows swapping in different backends for basic services. Instead, projects like openpush are being developed essentially by volunteers.