"But in the case of Android, 'open' has been hijacked and wildly contorted so as to mask the shady side of what’s really been going on." I hate when people bit

"But in the case of Android, 'open' has been hijacked and wildly contorted so as to mask the shady side of what’s really been going on." I hate when people bitch that Android isn't open. I guess it depends on your definition of "open" but whatever way you look at it, Android is the most open in my opinion because it's the only smartphone platform I know of where you can build your own modified ROM or kernel and replace the one on your phone with it. So maybe it's not perfectly open but it's the most open and I like that about it. Edit: as someone else here has mentioned, we have Android on hundreds of different phones, as well as Nook and GoogleTV devices. That's not something you see with BlackberryOS or iOS.