Sharing The Android Love & Hate

In case you're wondering why you should care about Android, here's a list of reasons. There are five, actually, representing both ends of the love-hate spectrum. Here are samples of each, with the likeable trait listed first.

1. It's open! The single best thing about Android is that's a modern mobile phone OS that's also almost completely open, unlike some other locked down mobile OSes.

3. Buuut, carriers still have the right to gimp Android to their liking, precisely because of its Apache licensing. So a Sprint Android phone could have its built-in "store" stocked only with, say, Yahoo! apps—or no store at all. In Verizon's hands, the UI could still look like it fell in a bucket of gaudy red paint.

I suggest you head over to the source for the full details, even if you're ambivalent or apathetic about the whole thing. The information is still pretty useful to know. For example, we won't be getting the same experience even if our mobiles share the same operating system. Whether that's a win or an epic failure will depend on the carrier and/or the cellphone.

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