>But there is little preventing a manufacturer or carrier from using the open-source (subset!) of Android Except the losses from maintaining the stack separate

>But there is little preventing a manufacturer or carrier from using the open-source (subset!) of Android Except the losses from maintaining the stack separate from google, and potentially losing the google market might not be covered by the kickbacks for shovelware. The real competition will be if amazon steps up to provide a distro to phone manufactures.