Totally agree, the best strategy would be to open up android by offering an alternative for Google Play Services. I think Amazon, Microsoft, Cyanogen, FireFox a

Totally agree, the best strategy would be to open up android by offering an alternative for Google Play Services. I think Amazon, Microsoft, Cyanogen, FireFox and others should band together to offer a 'third way' with open Android. Hard problem to solve would be who would provide the services and who would run the app store. Maybe the customer should be able to switch what they use. Developers would need to upload to multiple app stores, but this can be solved with intermediate services.