Android forks are now 20% of the ecosystem. What is Google's plan?

Last week, news came out that Android has widened its gap over competing mobile platforms, and is now accounting for 85% of all smartphone shipments around the globe. That is an absolutely dominant number, but the hidden story in those numbers is that not all of those smartphone shipments are running Google Android. There are plenty of forks around the world, and actually about 20% of the Android ecosystem is made up of non-Google, or forked Android devices.

Forked Android devices have been a part of the ecosystem essentially ever since Google first ...



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