"Google needs to assert a little more of the control it professes to hate, to avoid alienating consumers and giving credence to reports that carriers or OEMs are deliberately hobbling devices.
For instance, Samsung was this week forced to deny rumors that it was blocking carriers such as T-Mobile from releasing over-the-air updates to Android 2.2, to bring Gingerbread to its Galaxy S family. This was supposedly because it wanted users to buy a new phone, perhaps the second generation S, to be unveiled next month at Mobile World Congress. Even when such tales are untrue, they sound all too believable to users who are unable to get the latest Android release, sometimes for months after first hearing about its charms."
