I don't understand this article
It's like hearing Qi-Gong explaining his super plan to fight the invasion of a random planet by having Anakin win the race or something.
So Google creates a proprietary Android with the API also proprietary (given the new "rightsholder-friendly" "can't copy this API" legal landscape) to have more control so that phone makers living in a "brutal marketplace" where 1c difference in BoM is a lot (how many planets do they supply in phones?) are left in the radioactive dead zone of the non-updating consumer gimmicks.
But so what??