While I suppose it's nice to see it codified in bullet points, this shouldn't actually be surprising.

The fact that Google develops Android in private and only pushes the changes to a public repo after it's finished is well-known. There are open-source purists (of which I am not) who shake their fists over this behavior, but it's been an observable trend since Android first launched.

And as a corollary to that, we've also known explicitly that each release of Android is given to one OEM first to launch a halo device, and then opened up to other OEM's only afterwards.

So...people predisposed to dislike Google's stance on Android are already well-acquainted with this information, and people predisposed to support Google's stance have already accepted this behavior.

This is a little different in that there was belief (I think Google even stated) that the halo device would be a competitive process. This document gives the appearance that now it will just be Motorola. No more HTC Nexus One or Samsung Nexus S.

Co-dependency syndrome in a nutshell.