[E. Pluribus Unum]

Android is open source.

https://source.android.com/

This story makes no sense.

[butlerweave]

It’s future android OS’s

[Mr. Jeeves]

This story makes no sense.

It's really all about access to the Google Play store - not the base Android OS.

[No.6]

The things Google’s taken away from Huawei are the proprietary Google apps on top of Android (the store, maps).

I don’t own a google-spying phone (having instead an apple-spying phone) but I presume that lacking those means no access to most apps outside of sideloading.