John Gruber:

Google’s dependence on hardware and carrier partners puts the final product out of their control — and into the control of companies whose histories have shown them to be incompetent at design and hostile to users.

I agree and I already told that before. What makes the iPhone great is because it’s a carefully controlled product from top to bottom.

That doesn’t mean Android won’t still be successful in some sense if it remains on its current course, but that I don’t expect it to be successful in the “holy shit is this awesome!” sense that the iPhone is.

Android might gain huge market adoption from Chinese manufacturers (and others) but without rules to guide the final product, I wonder how Google expect to compete by letting anybody change the user experience.