If you're right, that would be a major positive advance. If the open source community at large could build off an up-to-date Android base that was trivially co

If you're right, that would be a major positive advance. If the open source community at large could build off an up-to-date Android base that was trivially compatible with top-notch hardware, I think some interesting possibilities might emerge. Sadly, I think that it's unlikely that Google will really risk enabling this kind of freedom, because of the concern that it would just make life too easy for Amazon and Facebook.