I'm surprised at the sheer number of people that have struggled to grasp the difference between an open Android and a closed OHA. Amazon aren't in the OHA and a

I'm surprised at the sheer number of people that have struggled to grasp the difference between an open Android and a closed OHA. Amazon aren't in the OHA and as such are able to do what they want, Acer had the option of leaving the OHA and using any fork they want, including the AOSP Android. Yes Acer would be forced to launch devices later than the code would be launching on the latest greatest Nexus, but should Acer have gone that route, they'd probably be on to something. OEMs should stop making devices designed to run the latest iteration of Android and simply run good stable devices that require as little modification of the code to get running as possible. If they then want to overlay that and add their own store, that's up to them. HTC have been hedging their bets with Android in the completely wrong way, hence the abomination that is the Sense framework and locked bootloaders. The key is freedom and ultimately any discord comes from the OEMs trying to ensure a future beyond Android.