Android Silver could become 'Wintel for phones'

[pctech]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/07/googles_wintel_for_phones_will_anyone_dare_defy_the_chocolate_factory/

Looks like Google want to exert same control over the user experience that MS did with Windows

[pctech]

Darn meant to put this in the mobile section, could a kind admin please move it for me?

[Technical Ben]

A simple solution is competition. Hopefully someone will spring up and port/branch/fork off the Android stuff enough. That or some nice web apps that are platform agnostic. OR consumers not being too scared to loose apps/settings n a switch to a new startup. Hey, if Windows mobile 8 can do it... well, anyone with a few hundred billion in the bank can compete... 

[pctech]

Someone has, Amazon, as the Kindle runs a forked version of Android.