This brings us to Google.
Why in the world has Google been more than complicit in nerfing the web's chances on mobile?
To answer this you need to grok that Google, like Apple and every other big company, is an agglomeration of small companies that happen to send their revenues to the same place, but probably don't have any love for each other.
And Android comes from an acquisition: Danger.
/cc @chriscoyier @tomayac
Think back with me to 2008 when Apple had launched the iPhone and Google had the struggling Android system.
This was a multiple-miracle moment: because AT&T had an exclusive w/ Apple for US iPhone distribution, every telco and handset vendor was FREAKING OUT.
/cc @chriscoyier @tomayac