> Maybe part of the idea, because the bit about targeting low-end phones was completely stupid from the beginning This really stood out for me as well. My impr

> Maybe part of the idea, because the bit about targeting low-end phones was completely stupid from the beginning This really stood out for me as well. My impression was that they used it as a scape-goat for not having to immediately deliver a completely polished experience. I mean... Who's going to be paying for a phone with top-tier hardware when the software limits it to do less than most Androids out there... since ever? No-one would buy that phone. So it would be impossible to get a hardware vendor to fund such a venture. If they (at first) targeted lower ends phones, chances of getting something out would improve. And they did get something out! So that part worked. Obviously from there on they should have made improvements, and when the software platform had become good enough to sell itself, you should expect it on higher tier phones too. That's at least how I envisioned that they planned to execute, which IMO wouldn't have been a terrible plan if they had followed up. But ofcourse, we saw what happened, and it was obvious at launch that this wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. Touché really. I would have a liked a third platform, based on open standards.