[oflannabhra]

I agree with most of what you said, except "That's not really Google's fault".

I think it is Google's fault, they created the ecosystem that allowed carriers and manufacturers to lazily update devices (or not do it at all), and all of Google's stern talk about timely updates seems to have not affected the system at all. A secondary result of that ecosystem is the lively ROM community, but that seems like a poor gap-fill to me.

I think Google made too many concessions (or gave too much power) to carriers and manufacturers and is now paying the price in a fractured OS landscape.

[MatthewPhillips]

> I think Google made too many concessions (or gave too much power) to carriers and manufacturers and is now paying the price in a fractured OS landscape.

How are they paying the price?

[oflannabhra]

By having the latest version of their OS running on 1.12%[1] of Android devices?

1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400206,00.asp

[MatthewPhillips]

In what way does this negatively affect Google?