If Anyone Can Lock it, Consider it Locked

If only Google had the foresight to see this coming.

Software is only as open as the hardware it runs on. A PC is quite open and standardized, while a phone is only as open as the software developer, manufacturer and carrier negotiate it to be. What Google did with Android was to relinquish control to the other two entities in line, the carrier and manufacturer. Sadly, they aren’t willing to relinquish control to the user, so Google handed the Android keys to those responsible for the awful interfaces we’ve grown to revile over the last decade.

I guess “Don’t Be Evil” doesn’t apply if the company is evil by accident, eh?