"The pessimistic view (which I'm sure has factored in) is that they're only publishing such things to poke at Google." Why do you consider this pessimistic? I

"The pessimistic view (which I'm sure has factored in) is that they're only publishing such things to poke at Google." Why do you consider this pessimistic? I, for one, would love to live in a world where all the smart phone vendors started aggressively competing on how they each protected my privacy and security.