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Reactions to Gruber: Hypocrisy, pure and simple.

johngruber:

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Sorta, but Google so often touts their Galaxy Nexuses [sp?] as a pure Android experience, without any carrier meddling. Only, it’s not “pure” anymore

If memory serves me right only the Nexus One was touted as a carrier-separate experience. I don’t find anything from Google about the Nexus S or the Galaxy Nexus advertising it as anything but “a phone from Google”. The phrases “Pure Google” or “Pure Android” aren’t used by Google, only analysts and bloggers.

Do you know what happens when you assume?

To reiterate, this is nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking without casting the same eye toward Apple. Wasn’t the whole goal of the iPhone in the first place to do away with carrier meddling? And, to repeat myself again, when was the last time you tethered your iPhone to your iPad for free?

Fair enough, but isn’t the whole perception of Android that it is “Open” meaning, as far as i can tell, “Everything that Apple isn’t,” such that if Apple can’t tether for free, Android can. If Apple bows to carrier pressure, Android won’t. You can’t put whatever apps you want on your iPhone, on Android you can.

Whether it’s true or not matters less than the perception, right? So this looks like big, strong, my-best-interests-not-the-carriers-at-heart Google is caving to pressure from the Enemy.

(Source: daringfireball.net, via johngruber-deactivated20120326)