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Comparative difference in value between desktop linux users (either individually or as a collective) vs Android mobile phone manufacturers is very different.

From the perspective of the hardware manufacturer, individual desktop linux users are worthless, and they're unable to form a large enough collective to have enough money to matter either.

Individual Android vendors may or may not be large enough to try and force the hand. Google requiring this as part of the Google Play contract, thus bringing a large number of Android manufacturers together, is a very different beast.

That said, there's still no way to know whether or not it would work, but comparing the collective phone manufacturers to desktop linux users doesn't really seem like a fair comparison.

Linux desktops remain a minority share. Linux mobiles account for the vast majority of smartphones in the world.