While I suppose it's nice to see it codified in bullet points, this shouldn't actually be surprising.
The fact that Google develops Android in private and only pushes the changes to a public repo after it's finished is well-known. There are open-source purists (of which I am not) who shake their fists over this behavior, but it's been an observable trend since Android first launched.
And as a corollary to that, we've also known explicitly that each release of Android is given to one OEM first to launch a halo device, and then opened up to other OEM's only afterwards.
So...people predisposed to dislike Google's stance on Android are already well-acquainted with this information, and people predisposed to support Google's stance have already accepted this behavior.
This is a little different in that there was belief (I think Google even stated) that the halo device would be a competitive process. This document gives the appearance that now it will just be Motorola. No more HTC Nexus One or Samsung Nexus S.
The fact that Google develops Android in private and only pushes the changes to a public repo after it's finished is well-known. There are open-source purists (of which I am not) who shake their fists over this behavior, but it's been an observable trend since Android first launched.
And as a corollary to that, we've also known explicitly that each release of Android is given to one OEM first to launch a halo device, and then opened up to other OEM's only afterwards.
So...people predisposed to dislike Google's stance on Android are already well-acquainted with this information, and people predisposed to support Google's stance have already accepted this behavior.