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by dontnotice 2889 days ago
Any company can use AOSP in their devices and laod them with anything they like, see the Chinese market, see Amazon Fire tablets.
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Yes, and if they sell AOSP-based devices they then can not sell any other device with the Google components.

Or sell a device using only some of the things Google wants to make mandatory, but replacing others with their own.

That way they keep AOSP-based products on the fringe, since only niche manufacturers can afford to make them, and stop manufacturers trying to make/integrate better replacements for Google services. That's anti-competitive, that's the problem.

What they like, minus Google apps. And if they want even one device with Google apps, they can't make other devices without them and Search an Chrome