I agree. At some point, openness for vendors/carriers is in tension with openness for users. As a user, I'm happy to see Google clamp down on the vendors/carrie

I agree. At some point, openness for vendors/carriers is in tension with openness for users. As a user, I'm happy to see Google clamp down on the vendors/carriers, if it means they're finally taking my side. Hopefully that's what it means. (I'm encouraged to see that ChromeOS hardware will be mandated to be jailbreakable.)