The Apple fans at Appleinsider.com forgot to mention how fragmented the OS is and how iOS 7 will bring it to it's knees before Google can simply decide to scrap it.
I can see Google wanting to merge ChromeOS and Android as their focus seems to be on web enabled OSs. However, this article seems like a lot of gloom and doom as opposed to the promise of new hybrid innovative ecosystems that Google is likely to bring our way. I'm sure Apple would love to see an end of Android that has stolen the Smartphone market and is in the process of stealing the Tablet market but to call it an end is spin.
We know that Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie is already planned and could be released as early as Q4 and 4.3 just shipped which is supposed to be the last release of Jelly Bean. So if major change is coming to Android it would probably be more accurate to look at it as the metamorphoses of Android.
I doubt that Google is likely to want to end the run away success of Android even if as the article suggests it hasn't been able to directly capitalize off it as it should have been able to.
"stolen the Smartphone market and is in the process of stealing the Tablet market"
You want a monopoly in a whole market segment with high prices, low services and a company like Apple defining the content? Great how about the germans get back the monopoly in cars industry because they build the first cars?
