Google’s “Android One” gets watered down again, now a shell of its former self

Android One is (was?) Google's push for high-quality, low-cost smartphones for "the next five billion"—people in developing countries that do not have smartphones. Places like India have lots of cheap, crappy Android phones, and the goal of the program was for Google to show the local Android OEMs a better way to do things. Imagine the Nexus program, but on a serious budget.