[beauzero]

Google keeps rolling more and more up under them. I can understand the "good" argument...it rids the platform of fragmentation.

...but Android is slowly becoming less open. Scares me a little. Why shouldn't it?

[gtaylor]

The "open" part of this is being blown up a bit out of proportion, I think. Nothing stops other OEMs from replacing the Play apps (the closed part of this) with their own.

Are you an developer at an OEM? I'm just not sure why this would worry you. It sure beats not getting timely updates for core pieces because of silly carriers.