Is Google moving toward being the only Android phone?

With the HTC negotiations, is Google planning on going the way of Apple - manufacture the only phone (Pixel) to run on the Android platform? Seems to be many issues with the fragmentation of all the different phone manufactures to provide timely updates and be on the latest OS.

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