I completely agree with this. I was just thinking this the other day. Making the OS free to any device manufacturer was the stroke of genius. It even allows people to get into the phone business who might not have otherwise (Dell, Acer), because they don't have to develop an OS. I think Google is beating Windows at it's own game, in the phone world, in terms of figuring out how to become the default platform and that the hardware doesn't matter. Apple, though they've had a run of success, will end up marginalized again, for the same reason; it's need to tightly control the hardware and software combination.

To me Nokia is the wild card in all this. Meamo is a great platform. It's a step beyond Android, iPhone, and everything else, precisely because it is more of a true desktop experience. In the long run this could trump even Google, because of it's desire for tighter control. But Nokia has been so ineffective at pulling it's N series devices out of the high end niche, I don't know if they'll pull it off, even if they have the conceptually more radical and innovative design.