"...I suspect very few end users to pick their Android based on the custom skin it comes with..." I, for one, have decided to only go with Google flagships fro

"...I suspect very few end users to pick their Android based on the custom skin it comes with..." I, for one, have decided to only go with Google flagships from now on. So, in a sense, I pick them based on the custom skin it comes with: vanilla. I do think it's partly Google's fault. I imagine they didn't anticipate this becoming such a problem. They probably should've made the system modular enough and restricted the scope of the skins enough to make it a lot easier to upgrade the OS without having to update the skin, or at least making the changes trivial. That said, I really don't think most people care that much, and the ones who do root their phone and install whatever ROM they want. As a Droid X owner, I've been amazed at what the dev community has been able to do, even with a locked bootloader.