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Will Android Flavors Spoil the Platform?
rsmiller510 writes "Open source operating systems have a lot of upsides, but when you give cell phone makers and providers the power to customize the phones to whatever degree they like, it could end up confusing consumers and watering down the Android label."
The customizations many vendors tack on to Android suck (for the most part). Just leave Android alone and it works fine.
I read your comment imagining you were in tears - blubbering and yelling "Leave Android alone!"
Frick'in Internet memes....
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If enough people hate the phones that become highly customized by the carriers then the phone will not sell well
But that is the key. Why should the consumers like these devices less? Because they will have had more attention paid to the UI on them, and the carriers will be pushing them heavily, the highly customized devices will replace just about all "stock" Android devices in short order. They will control how often you can update, and before long each and every carrier will have an App Store you have to go through to sell to customers.
Sales for the "normal" Android devices will dwindle, and they will stop being made. All that will be left is heavily customized Android silos.
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