It's also worth noting that Google honestly tried to get under the restrictive policies of carriers by selling phones directly. The public did not bite. Google scores some points here, if you ask me, for at least trying it. If that _had_ worked out more, they could move much more aggressively towards opening up more without hampering android adoption.
Interestingly, for once consumer choice is probably getting in the way; if the iPhone did not exist I bet google would have been okay with moving a little slower in trade for pressuring the carriers more to i.e. promise to FOSS more of the carriers' custom contributions. Maybe. We'll never know, I guess. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
