Todd Walter
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IIRC, it was all Google services need to be bundled together. Which is why phones either use all of Google services or none at all (FireOS/Chinese ecosystem).
And it was Google heavily 'discouraging' third party OS's like Tizen, Ubuntu, and what not.
Remember Blackberry? OS10 is what started Google down this road as it had the ability to run Android apps (they shimmed the missing services). Google explicitly changed after Jellybean to break this and Amazon.