"I'm just surprised how the responses here(including the original announcement post) at HN of all places are mild and at times indifferent to the fact that we are about to give up control of our devices and make Google the arbitrator of what we can run on them"

Some might argue the corporate OS[1] user never had "control of [their] devices"

As in the past, more hassles are to come for Android users, but some might doubt this idea that users currently have control or ever had control

Why the hassles

Because the user has no control over the OS

The corporation might increase or decrease the hassles, making users happy or unhappy (or indifferent), but either way the user never has control

In a non-corporate OS the user can generally edit the OS to her liking

Introducing hassles in a non-corporate would cause users who were annoyed to remove them

In other words, if users choose a non-corporate OS where users have control then there is no need to "raise awareness among people, among law makers or people whose opinions matter to make Google take notice"

1. For example, the ones from Silicon Valley and Redmond