Android markets itself largely on "open". iOS... does not. Android has a history of being managed in ways which are anything but "open" -- ranging from the opa

Android markets itself largely on "open". iOS... does not. Android has a history of being managed in ways which are anything but "open" -- ranging from the opaque "chuck a bunch of code over the wall" development process up to and including the "we'll provide this release to some of our special partners, but none of you plebes can be trusted with it". So criticizing Android on the ground that it contradicts its own marketing should be fair game; doing so does not carry with it an implication that any competing platform is more "open", simply the implication that Android does not practice what its hype preaches.