This has nothing to do with Google Play services. Replacing the google services with another proprietary crap would be nothing (and cost relatively nothing) compared to building an entire operating system almost from scratch. This is a dick measuring contest. Although the chinese dick is shiny and impressive in this regard so far.
Plus, even google is playing with the idea of dropping linux, with the Fuchsia project.
To be honest, they didn’t want to but they were banned from google and lost play services so they might drop android altogether
This has nothing to do with Google Play services. Replacing the google services with another proprietary crap would be nothing (and cost relatively nothing) compared to building an entire operating system almost from scratch. This is a dick measuring contest. Although the chinese dick is shiny and impressive in this regard so far.
Plus, even google is playing with the idea of dropping linux, with the Fuchsia project.