In a nutshell: " By surrendering — and by surrendering, I mean, giving up the fight it claimed to be waging on your behalf for open wireless networks — it wins billions of dollars in online, mobile ad revenues. As a result, openness in the mobile market is no longer in Google’s best interest. Mobile openness is the tool of the outsider, not the incumbent. Google is now registering some 200,000 Android handsets every day. Phone-to-phone, Android is now outselling the iPhone. Google doesn’t need openness anymore. Now, the outsiders need openness. HP, now in possession of Palm’s very cool webOS, could — if it required openness — make handsets that weren’t carrier-crippled and sell them cheaply, owning the low end of the smartphone market." - Graham Sergeant