You can feel the glee oozing out between the words as the journalists report that Android has been delayed. We told you so, the mobile world is not as easy as you tried to make it look screams the whitespace between some banal reporting.

However this Schadenfreude hides the real story, which is hinted at in this quote from FierceWireless “insiders say carriers are having trouble customizing Android so it promotes their own Internet offerings.”

The whole point of the internet and Android  was openness and configuration, so this translates as “the carriers are finding it difficult to prevent users getting access to Google’s services.” It would be simply stupid to blame replacing one icon with another pointing to a fixed carrier deck for a multi-month slide in deadlines, it must be deeper.

So my I told you so for the day was that the “open” in Android is only for the operators, not for consumers.

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