[yanosc]

No need to listen. We all know how evil the intentions are. This will kill the platform, for better or worse.

[tokioyoyo]

We’ve been through this route before, it doesn’t kill the platforms. It just alienates people like us, which is actually a net benefit to Google.

[AnthonyMouse]

Android was a sink for people who want things like this and an excuse for people to rationalize Apple doing it. If Android is "good enough" then who needs some actual Linux phone? If Android is open and that's what you want then why don't people just buy one of those instead of having the government break up Apple and Google?

People become willing to do things when you throw them out in the cold that they wouldn't do when you were still supplying the bread and circuses, and those people they don't like? It's because they're stubborn and they actually care and they know how to build things, isn't it?

[jjav]

In this case, the benefit of android is that the owner of the device owns it, so can run whatever they want, in stark contrast to apple.

If that goes away, might as well use apple's walled garden. There is no point for android to exist if freedom goes away.