Why I (mostly) gave up on Android Pt. 4

And... number four...

Carriers
Why do the carriers matter?  BECAUSE THEY DO.  Take a look at how well AT&T did because they had the iPhone.  Disregard the fact that the GSM network is better for an actual mobile user.  Disregard the fact that people continue to flip their shit about CDMA restrictions.  Disregard the fact that T-Mobile still doesn't have an iPhone and still has unlimited data (and in some places a better HSPA+ network).  Carriers matter, trust me.

Verizon dropped the ball so fucking hard that Google didn't even make the new Nexus available on CDMA... at all.  (Sprint loses, too.  Poor Sprint.)  I am pretty sure that if they continue to be the fucking hateful bloodsuckers that they are that after the Moto contract expires that Google will pull that exclusive contract.  Imagine if Google could make a Motorola Nexus and offer it to carriers with their own stipulations.  WIN!  Imagine, now, if Google stopped Moto from making all of those sweet DROIDs for Verizon.  You'd have... a couple of Samsung lawsuit phones and some garbage LG phones.  AWESOME!  No that the RAZR M of the HD versions of the RAZR and MAXX are all that great.  Actually... the RAZR and MAXX themselves were kinda shitty.  Since the Droid X Moto has kind of been mediocre on VZW.

T-Mobile started the pure Nexus thing and I think it'd be same to hedge some bets on them.  What I'd love to see if Google go in and buy them... and then buy Sprint.  Have both GSM and CDMA and use that with your new Fiber powerhouse to go across the country and provide us with quality service for reasonable prices and making a fucking killing.  I'd buy into it.  I can't wait until the Google Fiber is available.  I might just set my fucking Comcast modem on fire.  Dicks.

If I ever go back to Android it will be for a Nexus.  I want the pure experience.  I want the bloatfree guarantee.  I want to know that people are going to develop for it.  I want to know, moreover, that the Carrier won't fuck it up again.  Fuck you Verizon, assholes.