[snorremd]

Did this not work for Android? I seem to recall that every Android phone manufacturer shipped their own customized Android with different home screens, navigation, widgets, apps, etc. Did not stop consumers from buying the phones. Even today the number of Android phones released with stock Android each year is laughably low.

[pjmlp]

Not at all, unless you mean that the current situation of only getting updates when paying at least 800 € for 2 + 1 model is a good one.

Imagine getting a OEM Linux with such update model, using closed source drivers bound to the distribution kernel.