23rd June 2013, 5:21 PM
Google's recent desire IS to mandate things, but they can only mandate so much. Keep in mind that Android is open source. ANYONE can compile a version for their phone with or without Google's blessing. In a lot of ways, this is a good thing, but as I mentioned above, it has created a host of issues.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)