Okay, so Android ain't perfect.

The San Jose Mercury News has an article up highlighting more developer dissatisfaction with Android. This time a new cause for bitching, the as-yet-unrevealed nature of the source code, is the thrust of the compaints, although the good ole "buggy and lacks features" bit is brought out again as well.

As Google seeks to position itself to be the Microsoft of mobile by offering a free must-have operating system, it is running into Microsoft-style problems that could complicate the Mountain View company's efforts to expand into the mobile advertising market, which is expected to be $11 billion in just three years.

Even with the bugs and delays, I'm not sure just what's "Microsoft-style" about creating an open-source OS and giving it away.

This reads like manufactured news. Find a complaint that may or may not have some legitimacy, get a quote from somebody in the industry (usually an executive from a San Francisco start up; both SF start ups and their executives replicate like bacteria, so there's always one available and they'll usually say whatever you want), then package the whole thing up as news. The public's love affair with Google is slowly degenerating into reality ("He's realy nice and everything, but sometimes he'll wear the same pair of briefs for, like, four days in a row!"), so these not-is-all-right-inMountain-View stories are hot.

In other words: move along, there's nothing to see here.