Although Google’s Android OS was the savior for a number of big companies (Motorola, Samsung, you hear me?), and is also responsible for the appearance (and, to a certain extent, the success) of a number of smaller companies (Archos is a name that quickly pops out), apparently, there are quite a few unhappy Android OEMs out there. According to Ted Morgan, CEO of Skyhook Wireless, his company is working with a number of manufacturers to provide geolocation services for upcoming devices that will run forked versions of Android, a direction that an increasing number of manufacturers plan to take in the future.
For the record, Morgan’s Skyhook has been involved in a bitter legal dispute with Google, somehow related (coincidence?) to the power relations that exist between Google and OEMs, Motorola is in that specific case. You can read more about the Skyhook-Google dispute and the way Google throws its weight around to impose its will on manufacturers, in this excellent analysis from The Verge’s Nilay Patel.