Sony A new favorite Android-community?

If you go back in the days of Windows Mobile, you'll recall that an indispensable leader in smart phones was the company HTC. And even now the most supported community, most of Jaca, and least likely to transform a brick at primerivanii various piercings and even operating systems, the device - HTC HD2. However, over time, HTC lost a crown favorite than immediately took advantage of Samsung, pulled on her over. But it seems that what is coming next shift priorities from users and forwards gradually sees Sony.

I think a large part of those who buy Android smartphones take into account the extent to which this model is supported by the community, how it is likely to get it custom firmware or patch tweak when it will end officially support deal maker. This, of course, is not the main parameter when choosing a smartphone, but it also plays a small role not.

In the modern world we live under the pressure of patents, licenses and laws. These licenses and agreements must observe and device manufacturers. A great deal is now living under license GPL, which requires that the source code of software was available in the community to access the free form. However, not all vendors want to put up with this for a long time and often hamper before performing its obligations to the public. Such delays lead to the community that supports life on a par with the device vendors, renounces the development of a certain device.
Today, the worst violators of these orders are possible, Huawei, ZTE and Rockchip. A little better, but not perfect, things at Motorola, LG, and, unfortunately, HTC. In the last year there leader for Samsung, who left due to its Galaxy-series devices. But you can see, it is now the first position in this matter gradually and successfully recaptures the company Sony.
Not so long ago, Sony worked closely with Google, to unreleased and put the code in its gadgets AOSP. Thus they also have an army advanced curious users who tested and searched for bugs in their firmware, before the official release to the public. Not only do they have posted the source code AOSP, and even launched their Github for their modifications. Sony released at one time to access the alpha version of the firmware for the Xperia T. In the alpha, of course, much more did not work, but it has been available and willing to test the software to try the firmware on your device. Moreover, Sony even posted the kernel source. No one else from the major vendors did not do this.
Here, of course, one could argue that Sony tried so hard to solely observe that GPL, rather than worrying about the curious, but the other players of the mobile market in general behave wretched. Or part-time lay out noncompilable code or even waiting when they were beginning to enter the claims on which have to fight back, and the pressure which has to fulfill the obligations. Sony also show the lads here: they do even more than is needed for a simple compliance with GPL-licensed.
For explanation http://pocketnow.com/2013/02/06/sony-power-user-favorite.