MG Siegler hates on the carriers for ruining Android. The problem is not Android itself, of course, but changes made by the phone companies, whose interest in its open nature does not extend to leaving it that way for customers. Robert Scoble, meanwhile, reports that a Google executive admitted to him that the lesson of the Nexus One is that the carriers are in control.
Carriers close down Android
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