That's not everything Google is doing. Smart TVs are hot, and Samsung is the leader. Of course there are "Google apps" there, but from early sometime next year Google shuts down map location services for smart TVs.

IMO what we are witnessing is not a war between Google and someone else. What we are witnessing is Google gradually building a closed ecosystem. Now when Android is widespread, they tighten the rope gradually. Soon you need to run Android to be able to run a single Google app.

The next step in the process is Motorola producing "Nexus devices". Then you also will need a "Nexus" to have the "full experience" of Android.

Lucky for us there exists an alternative And the funny part, the alternative is better And the best part, the alternative use the best HW (just ordered a Lumia 820 btw )

Anyway, believe it or not, I am also for open source. But not the "open source" version on the crippled N9 or what Jolla is going for. In the coming years the patents closing down baseband systems will be old, and then things will get really interesting. It will mean real open source phones is a reality, but it will also mean that a hurricane will travel through operator country and destroy every single bit of the old operator despotism. A down side is of course Apple/Google/MS will head into operator country and completely close down their ecosystems like we have never seen before.