> if they decide not to do that, my money's on them creating half-assed proprietary browsers built around WebView All of the major OEMs have already done that.

> if they decide not to do that, my money's on them creating half-assed proprietary browsers built around WebView All of the major OEMs have already done that. They've been shipping their own browsers built on top of webview for years now. The only devices that ever saw Google's/AOSP's Browser were Nexus devices and those running custom ROMs. Being limited to WebView isn't a problem anyway - that's all the old Browser used. It's "just" a UI on top of WebView. Just like the majority of browsers in the play store are "just" different UIs on top of WebView.