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> Amazon attempted to sell phones with their own fork of Android without permission, but didn't have much luck.

FYI - Amazon's Fire OS is based on Andriod:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_OS#:~:text=Fire%20OS%20is....

There was a Fire phone, but I thought the issue was it didn't find commercial acceptance.

Right, people are talking as if this is somehow impossible, but the Amazon Fire tablets have been on the market for ages! They're based on AOSP without the google stuff, and even have their own app store.

Maybe it's the exception that proves the rule though - it takes another megacorp to pull off a mass market Android device without Google's blessing.

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