Excellent essay by MG Siegler detailing how Android has failed to live up to its original promise. I don’t know if the original plan was ever possible, but there’s no question in my mind that this model is better for consumers and technological development than the one we have now.

Apple, for all the shit they get for being “closed” and “evil”, has actually done far more to wrestle control back from the carriers and put it into the hands of consumers. Google set off to help in this goal, then stabbed us all in the back and went the complete other way, to the side of the carriers. And because they smiled the entire time they were doing it and fed us this “open” bullshit, we thanked them for it. We’re still thanking them for it!