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AOSP is open source. GMS is not. Samsung required GMS to make a commercially viable Android handset that consumers recognize as Android.

Therefore the Android that Samsung (and the other Android makers outside china) licenses is obviously not open-source. This is why Pichai and Google have leverage.



Android is open source, Google services are not.


You have failed to address the point I made.

What Google calls Android includes a great deal of closed code.

You can make up a private definition of your own if you like, but it's not the one Google uses, so is irrelevant.


You have failed to just read the Android site

https://source.android.com/source/index.html


You have failed to watch the Google I/O keynote.




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