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This is the kind of weird distinction I don’t get. Google never tried to bullshit anyone. They “put it right out there” too: Android is open. Some of Google’s Android apps are not. There was never a secret about it. Google has explained how this works from the very beginning. I honestly don’t understand why some people seem to think that this is some kind of terrible new revelation; it would be like Android users suddenly finding out that you can only sync an iPhone with iTunes and making a huge stink about how Apple wasn’t being honest about this, when it’s just them not really caring that much about Apple, and thus not really knowing what Apple has publicly said. Google was upfront about this from the beginning.

This argument seems to boil down to “having everything closed is better than having most of the things open because having everything closed is more honest”, but that’s the kind of weird argument that smells strongly of rationalization.