Google lacks fundamental business and product management skills. Creating an "open platform" encourages device makers to polish it only for their needs but not

Google lacks fundamental business and product management skills. Creating an "open platform" encourages device makers to polish it only for their needs but not upstream features and fixes to competitors (OS fragmentation) and let multiple, insecure versions run forever that rarely get updated (legacy fragmentation). Plus, Linux security is usually an oxymoron which Fuchsia may address. If Google wants their platform to survive, they're going to have to require approval for apps and devices, and stipulate things like UX usability and mandatory OS patches. PS: There are thousands of servers run by handset manufacturers and telcos that are required for some features of mobile devices to work at all. For example, Motorola Mobility smartphones' depended on their own servers for many social media features to work. These backend-heavy designs are supremely easy to brick, disconnect and invade privacy of users, en masse, for profit and for government spying.