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Google may alienate allies with Motorola deal

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Kaessa8/15/2011 9:13:08 pm PDT

re: #15 MichaelJ

I’m sure they realize this. They’ve been as frustrated as the users at the fragmentation and the pointless overlays by the manufacturers that delay updates and cause security problems to remain in phones ages after they’re discovered.

I’m just crossing my fingers and hoping we’ll see some unlocked bootloaders and naked Android on all of the Motorola phones from here on out, and hopefully on some of the phones that are already out. I’d kill for AOSP or Cyanogen on my Droid X2. At the very least, I’d love to be able to update my phone to the latest version of the software, just like I do with my computer. My last phone, a Samsung Fascinate, was running on software that was a year and a half old. Unsafe. Unsecure.

If this prods manufactures to look at their updating habits, it will be good for everyone, not just Google.