After Google Pressure, Samsung Will Dial Back Android Tweaks, Homegrown Apps (recode.net)

"Google has apps for pretty much all the most important functions on a phone or tablet — email, messaging, maps, storage, browsing, reading the news, finding and consuming media — and they are interlocked so that tasks flow naturally from one app to the next."

Interlocked?

Wouldn't it be great if there were tech journalists that knew the first thing about Android?

I wonder if Google's Motorola sell off was a part of this bargain. It seems oddly coincidental.

We joke about Apple controlling their software, but Google is moving toward the same. The Android fracturing is getting to them.