[herval]

if they can cope with the fragmentation (which is already happening - with only TWO devices on market)...

it's funny to remember, though, that Symbian was the future when they announced it was open sourced. And then Maemo became the future. Then OpenMoko...

[nailer]

Symbian was never the future, it was an old product that had been OSSd. Maemo was never on a phone. OpenMoko was always a joke.

Android is the only modern, out of the box, touch based platform not designed to pus hthe agenda of aparticular handset carrier.

[there]

but it is designed to push the agenda of google. the g1 couldn't even be activated without creating a google account.

[nailer]

You're right, I hadn't considered that. Googles agenda does closely match my own, but not always - their record in china doesn't suit me at all. Though I'm no apple fan at least they've never helped put someone innocent in jail.