> I am a little critical of people declaring Android great because it's open
I am in the same boat (I made the original comment referring to the drivers). Now it is partly through my own ignorance. I assumed if I just followed the steps to built and install AOSP (plus some patches I was trying out), I would have gotten a functional Nexus 7, minus all the google apps of course. Well rotation sensor, and other wasn't working, GPU was slow, other stuff was crippled. The device was basically not usable very much.
Now yes, Android on a scale is a lot more open than say Apple products for kudos for them. But at the same time the fine print associated with AOSP is a little too much for the project to be proclaimed completely "open".
I am in the same boat (I made the original comment referring to the drivers). Now it is partly through my own ignorance. I assumed if I just followed the steps to built and install AOSP (plus some patches I was trying out), I would have gotten a functional Nexus 7, minus all the google apps of course. Well rotation sensor, and other wasn't working, GPU was slow, other stuff was crippled. The device was basically not usable very much.
Now yes, Android on a scale is a lot more open than say Apple products for kudos for them. But at the same time the fine print associated with AOSP is a little too much for the project to be proclaimed completely "open".