Android has always been sold as an open system + proprietary google apps. If you want access to the proprietary system (and presumably the Android trademark), you fall in line. Any company is free to make a phone without the proprietary google apps, but not selectively.
Yet for all this, Google still allows vendors to do things like lock the phone's search to Bing.
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Android has always been sold as an open system + proprietary google apps. If you want access to the proprietary system (and presumably the Android trademark), you fall in line. Any company is free to make a phone without the proprietary google apps, but not selectively.
Yet for all this, Google still allows vendors to do things like lock the phone's search to Bing.