> #2 suggests Google just didn't want phones with ancient or beta versions of Android in the market with Google branding I think that would have been acceptabl

> #2 suggests Google just didn't want phones with ancient or beta versions of Android in the market with Google branding I think that would have been acceptable - my reading of #2 is that if you sold phones with a fork of Android, even if that phone did not have Google branding, Google would not allow you to sell *any* phones with Google branding. That does seem very similar to the Microsoft example.