« In a statement sent to Ars tonight, Google said that Acer signed away its rights to make Android-like phones not blessed by Google when it joined the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium designed to promote Android and create “greater openness in the mobile ecosystem.
Google blocked Acer’s rival phone to prevent Android “fragmentation” | Ars Technica
This is another one of these fascinating Mac blog blind spots. When there are non-Google Android phones, they yell “look at all that horrible fragmentation!” When Google does something against the fragmentation, they yell “look at that horrible Google!”