[2muchcoffeeman]

I think Kuranamon is suggesting that they could have dropped the openness or prevented others from calling their phones "Android phones".

[Karunamon]

Exactly. As I said, the openness is also its greatest weakness. Fragmentation is still a huge issue (look at the average Market app for one star reviews of the format "Force Closes on $device")

I see what they were going for, but their execution frankly sucked.