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Ubuntu Touch is such a nice user experience. If it had an Android-tier app ecosystem it'd be a very nice daily driver.

Ah, the great beige era. I miss beige computers.

Sort of.

British company Cello make one. I don't know if the carbonator is made in the UK, but the company brags that it's the only company to manufacturer TVs in Britain so I presume they also manufacture the rest of their products here too.

Divine is good. Based in London and manufactured in England, but roughly half owned by a cocoa farmer's cooperative in Ghana.

SUSE already has quite a sizeable number of municipal users in Germany. It wouldn't be hard to imagine the EU contracting with SUSE.

Gogle is fairly open but for some reason another app store hasn't made it big

Samsung has their own app store which I presume does reasonably well in their ecosystem, and Amazon maintains their own app store for Kindle. F-Droid is also reasonably popular with the open source and privacy focused crowd.

There's also just no real incentive for them to do it. The number of devices running fully de-googled Android forks are miniscule in the grand scheme of things. Everyone running devices with non-standard Android but which still uses Google Play Services and the rest are just as valuable to Google as the ones running stock. And it suits Google to have the small ultra-privacy hobbyist market still running Android forks, even de-googled ones, rather than moving on to something else entirely.

For as long as it's still under the Apache licence, they're still obligated to release the source under the terms of that licence. They'd need to change the licence to stop providing code; which as you say, they could do, but that would also kill AOSP entirely overnight so is a bit of a bigger problem than the one described in the OP.

I'm down south, and I like my water good and chewy thank you very much.

(It all gets filtered before it goes in the kettle or the coffee machine though; man can only consume so much gravel)

Visa employs about 15,000 people in the US. MasterCard presumably similar.

MasterCard pays about $150m in corporation taxes in the US each year. Visa presumably similar.

These are the benefits that these companies bring to the US.

Is it possible? Sure.

Even then, not really. Not legally, anyway. Open source licences require that the user be provided with the source code (if requested) alongside the binaries. If they roll out an update to Android (to code which is under an open source licence), they have to release the code at essentially the same time. Rolling out an update and then withholding the source code for an unnecessarily long time would be against the terms of the licence.

They are. And their European stock is also manufactured in the Netherlands.