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Also, if the manufacturers get the OS for free, then they're not spending money developing one, which ultimately reduces the cost of the device to the consumer.
2) Almost all manufacturers and carriers do something to ruin the openness of every Android phone, then they will promptly void your warranty on a modified handset if you try to get it repaired. Almost all phones (minus the Nexus series) either try to prevent you from installing your own apps (AT&T), load the phone with tens of megabytes of BS (Verizon), lock the bootloader (Motorola), or tweak the handset firmware in such a way as to make AOSP ROMs darn near impossible (Samsung).