
Google has finally acknowledged that its characterization of Android as open source is false and, in the end,
this can only make the mobile platform stronger, InfoWorld's Galen Gruman argues. 'It's hard for believers to accept that open source brings with it difficulties, but look at the consistent failure of the other open source mobile platforms -- Moblin, Maemo, and MeeGo -- that all devolved into grad-student-like thought experiments and personal pet projects. Users don't want that, and ultimately products are sold to users.' Instead, Google has been quietly taking parts of Android back in house to
develop them purposefully and deeply, and as Google has asserted more control over Android, it's improved.
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£0.03 per day (the figure you gave earlier) doesn't sound expensive, but £120 is a fair amount of money to pay out in one go for a lot of people. It's the reason I use Linux Mint rather than Windows on my media PC.