[nopreserveroot]

For what reason? I would wager that 3rd party stores would gain popularity should that happen.

[fuayenah]

If that happened, Google would stop letting you install those.

[bearcobra]

And you'd likely see a fork with support of the major handset makers and companies like Amazon. Google has a lot of control thru Play Services, but something that hostile would be a recipe for a split.

[SEJeff]

Oh right, something like Cyanogenmod, right? ducks

[fuayenah]

They've been looking into getting rid of aosp for years by the means of neglecting it. So they'd just have to stop publishing the code.

[arkitaip]

They would be sued so hard and fast that they would travel back in time to register the original googol domain.