Excellent assessment. Can't see it happening on the scale you have suggested, since it is unlikely Google will ever lose influence on more than half the marketshare of the Android app ecosystem....
Yet another equally plausible scenario would be an eventual deal between Amazon and Google. In wherby Amazon would acquire / take-over the Android brand and replace Google's role as leader of this platform. Cause some of us have a suspicion that Google will eventually transition their focus to 100% Chrome anyway; 'dropping Android' and/or selling whatever control it currently has on it to another company. Amazon seems ready.
Google giving up on Android for Chrome makes no sense.
Taking control away from other companies over the future of mobile phones is the biggest reason why Google released Android, a genius move nonetheless. It's the same reason why they have been paying shitloads of money to Mozilla, it's the same reason why they released Chrome ... to make Google's search the default.
And Chrome is nice and all, with Chrome OS being an interesting experiment, but the importance of Chrome pales in comparison with Android - their biggest success since GMail.
I also do not think Amazon will take over anything. The power of Android comes from being used by multiple vendors. That's the reason why Android exceeded iOS in numbers.
Really, what makes anybody think that Amazon can do better than Apple?
Yet another equally plausible scenario would be an eventual deal between Amazon and Google. In wherby Amazon would acquire / take-over the Android brand and replace Google's role as leader of this platform. Cause some of us have a suspicion that Google will eventually transition their focus to 100% Chrome anyway; 'dropping Android' and/or selling whatever control it currently has on it to another company. Amazon seems ready.