> Practically speaking, it would be pretty easy for Google to make many of its already standalone updated apps fully standalone. Anyone could distribute the Gma

> Practically speaking, it would be pretty easy for Google to make many of its already standalone updated apps fully standalone. Anyone could distribute the Gmail package, Google just won't let them. CM and ton of other ROMs are distributing GApps as standalone Zip - Google isn't doing anything to stop them. Tomorrow if Huawei does that - it would be a different story. Then Huawei can ship with 2.3 and outdated/incomplete Gapps (no browser, just gmail, no Google location APIs, instead incompatible APIs, and do a bunch of other things that could be bad for everyone else - which brings me to the point I made - that will result in people then complaining - In China you don't get uniform Google experience - Huawei phones ship with HuaweiKit instead of Blink, HuaweiBrowser instead of Chrome - so site owners can't even create a web app that works on all "Android" devices etc.