Fun, isn't it? Nokia's (Symbian) lead in handset sales worldwide is big, so it will be interesting to see if Samsung, Motorola and HTC will use the Google OS to catch up. Motorola in particular has been struggling so badly recently, they need to do something.
Whatever is going to happen to Windows Mobile, now that HTC is openly supporting a different OS? They were the main driver of WM into people's pockets for the last few years. Quite apart from the obvious thing that Google will be aiming at a desktop OS soon too, Microsoft must be getting a bit worried.
Good analysis (as usual)
here. And Android, the open development platform for the Google mobile OS, looks good already! Quite unlike that farcical iPhone developers offering.
Update: A lightly more skeptical comment at
MobHappy. Another good point that I'm always pondering: Why is Google's stuff considered 'open'? It's
free, but that doesn't make it
open.
Wolf.