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> Google could have just as easily bargained for the same kind of terms that Apple gets on iOS devices with carriers.

Right, and what about the hundreds of other manufacturers of Android phones?



I think Kuranamon is suggesting that they could have dropped the openness or prevented others from calling their phones "Android phones".


Exactly. As I said, the openness is also its greatest weakness. Fragmentation is still a huge issue (look at the average Market app for one star reviews of the format "Force Closes on $device")

I see what they were going for, but their execution frankly sucked.




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