[slownews45]

The entire focus on anti-trust and moved to harm to other (big) businesses - no care about the consumer.

The Anti-fragmentation agreement google makes these folks sign HELPS consumers. Going to be a crazy situation if that goes away, the app you buy on samsung won't work on HTC etc.

[eredengrin]

If the oems get fragmented enough then it might open up more space for a smaller competitor (ie an open source project) to come fill the gaps, and I certainly wouldn't mind that. Of course it's not a guarantee but I could see it happening - the more dissatisfied the lazy tech nerd segment gets the more we would all band together and try and make the situation better, and also by the competitors becoming more fragmented it might open others up to possibilities they didn't consider previously. (And yes I am putting myself in lazy tech nerd segment at least as far as my phone goes, I've always run cyanogenmod in the past but the last phone I bought I spent a weekend trying to flash lineage and it was annoying enough of a process I ended up back on stock ROM....but I'd certainly be down to try again given the right circumstances.)