Why bitch about nonsense?
"and is now threatening to make the "Decade of Linux Mobile Devices" a dream that could have been."
What nonsense. Android already dominates the mobile market by margins over WP. Just as Linux dominates the tech sphere with supercomputers, the Internet, set-top boxes, navigation devices and other embedded applications.
The philosophy that has driven Linux to success on the mobile market and other platforms has more to do with utilitarian practicality- the 'can do' anything and everything- than the aesthetics of visual candy. For instance, Android can do more things than iOS or WP.
Now, beauty is subjective. Do I care how my screen rotates? No, I only care that it rotates. Period. I'm more interested in doing things and making things happen as opposed to being obsessed with round corners, shadowed windows, or glassy buttons.
And to be perfectly honest, the Android interface is not at all ugly.
