Google’s Nexus launch event was almost Apple-like in the way it presented the new handsets within a far wider range of software and services announcements. Like its iOS rival, Google wants to provide the complete hardware/software platform, though wisely it has abandoned its efforts to own that hardware itself and is relying, instead, on broadening the role of the Nexus family of OEM partners. Huawei has entered that fold, building the new Nexus 6P, while the 5X model comes from LG. Nexus is Google’s most consistent effort to assert control over the Android user experience and impose some kind of quality management. With an open source operating system, this is clearly challenging, and even the Open Handset Alliance, which dictates…