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I don't think it is a good idea for any company to integrate it in the OS.
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Interesting. I have an LG-G2 and it's been a really nice phone. In fact I see no reason to buy anything else for now. IE: Nothing that has come out recently has made me even think about getting rid of my G2. I have an iPhone 6 for work (work issued). It's pretty nice too.
The headphone jack on mine broke every 5-6 weeks, period - no matter how careful or ginger I was with it. I used it in the same exact way that I've used every other phone or MP3 player that I've ever had, and it just couldn't hang together. It was really disappointing... I really wanted it to work for me. :( I'm really glad that you haven't had that experience!
To clarify a lot of the misinformation in the comments: * To my knowledge, Microsoft doesn't own Cyanogen. * The genesis of this is old (public) news: https://cyngn.com/press/cyanogen-announces-strategic-partner... * Cyanogen OS != Cyanogenmod. Cyanogen OS is a commercial OS. Cyanogenmod is an open source, community-driven OS.
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It's not really "stealing" but you could theoretically fork it and gain enough market share on your fork that your version becomes what people think of when you say Android.
But, Google open sourced it so they're cool with that. I still don't see the issue here.
Google has essentially taken over the ecosystem via their Google Play API. I know this first hand as my beloved Blackberry OS 10 was able to run Android apps. Now this is almost impossible as the majority of apps created in the last few years have hooks into Google's APIs and absolutely won't work without all of Google's hooks into your privacy.
I don't imagine roms that avoid GApps will be a viable alternative in a year or two either.
Microsoft has been trying to develop an ability to run Android apps on their phones, and it looks like they're giving up too due to Google's lock on the APIs.