Developer.com content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More.
At the Google Zeitgeist conference last week, a reporter asked Google CEO Eric Schmidt why Google doesn’t force carriers and manufacturers to use a purely unchanged version of Android.
“If we were to put those types of restrictions on an open source product, we’d be violating the principle of open source,” Schmidt said.
Hardware manufacturers provide custom user interfaces on to of Android.
