That's somewhat true, but it sounds like one of the goals is to get general feedback on the Android platform and its ecosystem of apps as well. For example, Pat

That's somewhat true, but it sounds like one of the goals is to get general feedback on the Android platform and its ecosystem of apps as well. For example, Path does a beautiful job using rich notifications in 4.1 (you see the uploaded photo in the actual notification), but Facebook isn't. Getting a broad set of feedback into product direction is helpful beyond just bug reports and testing.