Comment by swetland
11 years ago
The Android platform is open source under Apache/BSD/MIT licenses -- it's no harder to get that than it ever has been (not hard at all). Look at products like Kindle Fire for examples of "uses Android without Google Apps".
Yes you can easily just download it. But that's not exactly what the article is about. It's about why OEMs don't just download it and put it on there as such, but instead seem to get tied to Google Apps.