Take a few steps back, the obvious problem is that all phones are chock full of mysterious black boxes that the owner of the device has zero say over. Android

Take a few steps back, the obvious problem is that all phones are chock full of mysterious black boxes that the owner of the device has zero say over. Android has the problem of being too open to prevent backwards implementations and shitty, vulnerable, and bug prone code, but not open enough for anyone with the incentive to fix those issues to actually be allowed to fix them. I see the eventualities to be either Google locks down android significantly, and the market shifts to something more akin to Nvidia's board partner model, or, it opens way up, and device manufacturers open source their implementations of various system devices in order to crowd source fixes/improvements/etc. The former is much more likely than the latter, but, as a consumer, the latter would be preferable.