That's exactly what I'm saying. With Windows, you could follow as close to the cutting edge as you wanted. With Android, your hands are tied unless you want to hack your phone. For the hacker types that have so far pushed Android adoption, this is a big deal.
Windows users were still beholden to multiple parties for current hardware drivers.
I remember trying to install a late beta of windows 95 on then recent, but not cutting edge, hardware and being stymied. A few days later I installed RedHat on the same box and it all just worked.
Much more recently, I was looking for an ExpressCard USB3 adapter, but it seemed like most of the options didn't have working drivers for 64-bit windows 7
