Perhaps - in that article it read to me like that was being as a bit of an excuse to move to android (of course it makes sense for many reasons). It certainly sounds better than "we stuffed up - going to android" - sell the upside !
When TC was still involved we were looking at Chromium OS - which wasn't ready, and also Android. If we stayed with the project there was a good chance that it would have been Android at launch (with support for Marketplace and all the other good things that come with Android)