Sometimes people make things that are useful to Google or find bugs for them. It has no meaningful cost to them as long as non-Google Android isn’t appealing to mainstream users.
Huawei and their HarmonyOS would disagree with you on how many users there are on an AOSP variant. It’s a meaningful cost to Google, which is probably what is motivating them to lock down their phones now.
Sometimes people make things that are useful to Google or find bugs for them. It has no meaningful cost to them as long as non-Google Android isn’t appealing to mainstream users.
Huawei and their HarmonyOS would disagree with you on how many users there are on an AOSP variant. It’s a meaningful cost to Google, which is probably what is motivating them to lock down their phones now.
https://medium.com/huawei-developers/what-is-harmonyos-how-it-differs-from-android-e5ea3fc50acc