Five years ago this week… In one of the spicier Android TV moments of 2020, Google took a swipe at a tier 1 operator exec who had vented their frustrations to Faultline—chiefly about a perceived lack of control over the Android TV ecosystem. Google dismissed the complaints as misinformed. The prevailing point is that operators wanted to act like super aggregators while still gatekeeping third-party content, clashing with Google’s vision of open discovery via the Play Store. Google reminded that if operators want apps and voice discovery, they need to follow the rules—or else stick with the resource-heavy, OTT-light AOSP fork. Disney finally gets Hulu on the cheap: After years of negotiations, Disney will cough up just $439 million to…