God, the way some are predicting doom and gloom for wall garden approach and ultimate victory for open approaches is - well fine and very true in the long run, BUT ...

come on, this is a phone we are talking about - and how long does one use such a technology or a pjone itself - well maybe 5 years - till the new technology totally changes the market and hence the market players too.

So really withing these 3-5 years a company has to deliver the goods - either with their closed ecosystem or with their open approach.

This is not some big ideological issue like many are making it to be.

Yes Open vs closed is a big ideological issue - but for a phone technology, the time window is too short in these fast paced times. Here it is more an issue of wether a particular way delivers on the promise.

Having stuck to Linux based and supposedly open sourced approaches to mobile computing and mobile telephony since the Zaurus days, openMoko and now N900 - I have yet to see that promise of open approach to platform development deliver on its potential.