Here we go...
"... conform to our strict standards, and we'll give your devices two years of monthly patches and updates."
What's the betting that in the not-too-distant future, we start seeing blanket advertising of Android One devices all over any pages that Google has control over (search landing/results pages, I'm looking at you), plus other aggressive marketing strategies, all based off the back of claims of altruism...
Next step - Google starts subsidising manufacturers who subscribe, so that they can lower prices and undercut their non-Android-One competition, thus leading to an eventual dominance of devices indirectly controlled by Google via these "strict standards"
And because the device manufacturers are not direct subsidies of Google or Alphabet, no risk of any anti-trust action...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
