> Yes dethroning the google play services is a hard goal so here I'm mostly advocating for microsoft to keep the play services Microsoft can't do a lot of the

> Yes dethroning the google play services is a hard goal so here I'm mostly advocating for microsoft to keep the play services Microsoft can't do a lot of the things you want to improve Android without dethroning Google Play Services. So very much of the "real" Android OS today is closed source and in "Play Services". That's why Amazon and Samsung (and Cyanogen and its successors like LineageOS and…) have invested so much money into failures at this point! Android isn't an open source OS. It's a proprietary OS with an open source "crust". 1) The Android Java VM is tied up in lawsuit settlements between Google and Oracle at this point. Even Google likely can't replace it without repercussions or follow up lawsuits. This seems a large part of why Dart seems so important to Flutter and Fuchsia and what have you. (Plus Sun forbid Microsoft from ever touching Java again back in the 90s.) 2) Microsoft already sells/supports what was called Xamarin and is now called MAUI. They also seem to actively contribute to React Native. Most of the rest I cannot comment on because I'm not an Android user. As a former Windows Phone user, I feel Microsoft had an "ideal smartphone OS" and the market decided it couldn't support it and would rather Google be in charge of a "nowhere close to ideal smartphone OS".