Android has too many other stumbling blocks that make this sort of social innovation happen - in Androids' case, I believe, there are far, far too many clones w

Android has too many other stumbling blocks that make this sort of social innovation happen - in Androids' case, I believe, there are far, far too many clones with variance in the implementation of the standard that make it impractical to target the broader platform for such tricks. One the one hand. On the other hand, getting newer Android releases running on, for example, the G1DEV phone is an example of how this ethos has persisted, even on Android.