[twotavol]

Google doesn't need to do anything. No matter how bad Android gets, you and the general public will lap it up. Where else are you going to go? More on topic I use the File Manager application that came with CyanogenMod. It seems pretty simple, I don't know if it meets your needs or is malware free. These days I assume everything on Android is some form of spyware or malware and so I don't keep any financial or similarly sensitive information on it.

[dredmorbius]

Apple, Amazon, Ubuntu, and Mozilla are three alternatives to Google either presently or in the not too distant future (there's also Microsoft though they've got their own issues).

I don't know that any will succeed, but I suspect one or the other eventually will.

Android as it stands sucks. Badly.

I know. I'm typing this on it.