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Be careful about generalizing "Android".

The latest open source version of Android was released in December 2010.

Many Android phones cannot be rooted without exploits.

analykon Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

Because you didn't read the rest of the sentence?

"...devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores."

analykon Ubuntu should zig to Apple’s zag

I think your view of the 4GB download is going to depend on your Internet speed. At 1 MB/s or so, I've found it annoying to wait an hour for a download, but it's hardly the end of the world for an occasional thing. Could definitely be improved.