> That is not going to sit well with OEMs that have already had to deal with Google's level of control over Android. Are the likes of Samsung, Huawei, etc. goin

> That is not going to sit well with OEMs that have already had to deal with Google's level of control over Android. Are the likes of Samsung, Huawei, etc. going to jump on the bandwagon? I think that they won't be in a hurry to do that. I think that's one of the reasons why Google is taking their sweet time It happened before also. At one point Samsung was suppose to smother every android native app with their versions and alongside develop new OS (Tizen). And in intervening years Samsung or others have not proven that they can create large, quality software projects and ecosystems. So Google really have to do no more than reduce staffing for Android if and when they like to promote Fuchsia over it. All these phone makers are not gonna pick up slack and start maintaining. Also the likes of Samsung are really vulnerable to low cost manufacturers from China. So challenging Google on low level technical layer as far as business goes is hardly wise. One can argue vendors can just fork whatever "last/latest" release of Android and go their path. This indeed can work for few years. But with Apple/Google marketing of new experiences and features only supported by new OS this will be tough. These small vendors can't hire top software engineers who are used to Google level salaries to help develop features which otherwise estranged partner would have done.