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Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case by cpmouter on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:27AM (#17256627)
You can fork AOSP, which I'm sure can't run any of the top 10 apps of the Play Store unless you install Google Services, which are closed source and require a licence from Google (which in turn requires you to bundle Chrome, make Google Search the default, etc).

AOSP by itself is pretty useless because it can't run any of the apps the public is interested in.

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Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case by beenBoutIT on Thursday June 07, 2018 @01:58PM (#17258416)
*Can't run many of the apps. Lots of apps will run with limited functality. Chrome generally runs on AOSP, but it won't update and isn't nearly as capable as it would be with Google Services installed.
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