Could be. It's a risky change, if Samsung does it.http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/11/13/samsung-tops-android-63-device-market-share/But if Samsung does it, let me suggest you should ask why would users keep using Google Android. Samsung has over half of Android smartphones. All they need is for the top apps to be recompiled for their OS, keep dominating sales, and you start to wonder why not just develop for the dominate non-Apple smartphone and not bother with Googles system.Another view: even lowly Microsoft Metro Windows 7 Phone 8 has apps. So why wouldnt app developers, already dealing with multiple app stores and fragmented Android (including Amazon's fork) and iOS, do a quick recompile for a Samsung phone that represents 25-50% (?) of new smartphones sold every year?I'm assuming Samsung is essentially cloning Android, as described earlier. Something that is easy for developers to build apps for, and doesn't break anything to users, no more than upgrading phones every two years does.