>What Google needs to do now is collaborate with Qualcomm and come up with their own standardized hardware platform. Create a phone equivalent to PCI, ATX, PC 98, etc. And then refuse to license Android to any device that isn't built on this platform. They should complete the process of moving AOSP into GApps, replace the Linux kernel with a closed-source BSD derivative, and then announce the closure of AOSP. They should do with Android exactly what Microsoft does with desktop Windows.
Making Android closed source won't do anything. Unless you're using Fire, all Android manufacturers in the US are not getting their code through AOSP. They get it through a side license with Google.
The problem is not that Google can't force security, it just doesn't want to.
Making Android closed source won't do anything. Unless you're using Fire, all Android manufacturers in the US are not getting their code through AOSP. They get it through a side license with Google.
The problem is not that Google can't force security, it just doesn't want to.