It really wouldn't matter to me who "makes" it (Google + Manufacturer). As long as its a big step forward from where I'm at now. And, it's vanilla or/and has an optional/additional Google UI topping. I'm an Online PC gamer when it comes to games. So I can afford to wait on a substantial amount of improvement where CPU,GPU & screens are concerned. I feel Google is already doing a good job with the OS. Actually, I think the apps,... "however increasing as they are, and some very good apps are being developed", is the area of the bottleneck at the moment. That being said,... I would rather that be the bottleneck, because,... I feel that, that would be the least costly, easily changable problem area.
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