Deliberate fragmentation is G's attempt to lock people in their cloud platform. Most of these vendors in that Open Alliance league like the openness but hate the tight coupling with Google's own cloud service so they take a copy of Android code and then strip the cloud service part out. In other words, the first thing they do is to Android source code is to de-Google it to escape G's tyranny.
Google, despite all the rhetoric on supporting choice and freedom, certainly cannot stand actions like that against their agenda to lock people in their cloud platform so they release constant upgrades or simply tweak a few APIs here and there to make the vendors branching off from Google dictated version suffer.
Delicate and evil.
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