[maigret]

Has Apple crashed?

[navigate8310]

At least it has an open-source capable competitor.

[scarface_74]

Surely you aren’t talking about Android as “open source”. To a first approximation no one wants a phone running only AOSP without Google’s proprietary parts.

[lern_too_spel]

For definitions of "no one" that include 1 billion people.

[JustExAWS]

So yes, if I’m willing to go to China and use Chinese OEM customized phones with Chinese apps, I will be golden…

[lern_too_spel]

You're free to use the same Android that the Chinese OEMs (and Amazon) built their phones on yourself, without traveling to China. It's true that a reasonable definition of "no one" wanted Amazon's phones, but a much more lenient definition has to be used for the Chinese OEMs.

[JustExAWS]

And in any other country besides China, how many of the apps that most people use don’t have a dependency on Google Play Services APIs?

Google has been moving much of what a western user considers “Android” out of the AOSP code since 2013.

[gjvc]

you might want to recheck your measurements