That doesn't help companies like Skyhook(and Mozilla if Firefox too is banned by the agreement) because almost all OEMs are current members who are bound to the

That doesn't help companies like Skyhook(and Mozilla if Firefox too is banned by the agreement) because almost all OEMs are current members who are bound to the agreement: HTC LG Sony Samsung Electronics ASUSTek Garmin Huawei Technologies Sony Mobile Communications (joined as Sony Ericsson) Toshiba Acer ZTE Corporation Alcatel Mobile Phones Compal Communications Dell Foxconn Haier Kyocera Lenovo Mobile Communication Technology Ltd. NEC Sharp Corporation Saygus Corporation Care to guess the marketshare of Android handsets not shipped by one of the above? More and more things are being moved into Google Apps with each Android release. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-... Anyway, I don't begrudge Google doing this, I only have an issue with the bastardization of the word "open". AOSP and Android are very different, and when people say Android is open, they actually mean AOSP is open, since Android as shipped on devices is very different and contains a lot of proprietary things.