That's not what OEMs are interested in. That's what users are interested in. There will never be any users if there are never any devices. If OEMs aren't prepared to use it as an altOS there won't be any devices. In 3 years this has singularly failed to happen, save for the Intel slush funds.

"OMG no app ecosystem" isn't what phone companies and mobile networks are thinking when they test it and realise that the core apps are beyond basic, connectivity's pretty bad, basic features are still missing and it's slow as hell. They'd all demand Alien Dalvik, which most prospective users would utilise anyway.