Their goal was bever to extinguish Linux. Free and open Linux is critical to their business model because it is the infrastructure behind the third party sites

Their goal was bever to extinguish Linux. Free and open Linux is critical to their business model because it is the infrastructure behind the third party sites where they sell ads and insert their trackers. Their goal was to extinguish the nascent community of free and open phone OSs, thereby making themselves a duopoly with iOS, a task which they executed to perfection.