Perhaps you can look at it from a different angle: Samsung made it very clear that they would continue to fork Android, unless Google stopped making smartphones and dropped Motorola.
In a way Samsung has much more leverage over Android than Google.
Google should be picking another OEM (Lenovo?) and doing everything it can to push its sales, to create competition for Samsung. The whole point of Android was that by making the OS free software, it would neuter the OEMs, not give them the power to fork the OS.
I agree. Think reason Rubin left Android team in Google was because google realized samsung had too much control and google wasn't happy with Rubin too much...
