Comment by pedalpete

That's not at all what I'm proposing.

I'm proposing that Google can't decide what other hardware companies include in their devices just because they are including Android.

I think it is fine for Google to say you have to include the Play store, or you have to include Chrome, but to say you can't include firefox, or you can't include instagram, etc. etc. That shouldn't be up to Google.

This is what got Microsoft in anti-trust trouble in the 90s. They included Internet Explorer with the OS, and said that it had to be the default and only browser included by vendors. They weren't allowed to include competing browsers.