anony_mouse
Banned
- Aug 10, 2013
- 1,042
- 0
- 0
The other problem is that most of the juicy bits of Android are proprietary. That is, Google owns the code.
AOSP as it stands is some sort of barebones framework.
It's true that a certain amount of 'Android' is proprietary - but are these the parts that Microsoft needs? As far as I'm aware, the proprietary parts mostly support Google services (Play Store, GMail, Google Now, etc) - although please correct me if I'm wrong. Microsoft would almost certainly replace these services with their own - as Amazon and many Chinese manufacturers have.
As I said, the Nokia Normandy (if it is a real product) will be very interesting.