The super-geniality of Google in this is the good cop/bad cop approach. Nokia is actually pretty much in line with other vendors in this regard (and if you check kernel, X, etc contributions you can see that it's not in a bad spot at all) - Google sidesteps this elegantly as it does not deal with the hardware. Thus with Nokia you have one corp with all the goods and the bads, but with, say, Android you have the setup where you can lull yourself into 'siding' with good cop Google and hating (but essentially still giving in to) bad cop vendors/carriers.