Fake Steve on the Google Phone

Fake Steve puts it brilliantly.

Reason #2 -- the only companies that join consortia are the ones who are too stupid or shitty to make a great product on their own. It's like, Hey, we've got forty spazzo companies that can't fuck their way out of a paper bag; let's put them all together and maybe they'll magically become some kind of big bad powerhouse. More likely it'll just be some scary ass Frankenstein monster, walking around drooling and tripping over its own tongue.

I have to agree, right now this is a totally underwhelming press release with a bunch of companies that have little in common adding masses of beaurocracy to the process of developing a product. The last thing a product development team is 40 other companies trying to "help". Link