They haven't dropped MeeGo, they dropped Maemo to continue with MeeGo together with Intel. The result being they can make both ARM and Intel devices running essentially the same software.

Maemo turned out to be a dead end road with no future, so what? get over it. This is probably the strangest things with all these symbian bashing threads. Symbian is the most successful mobile OS by far, and it just continue to grow. Meamo is one of the least successful mobile OS'es (not a bad OS by any means, but it has no future, there is no place for it in the mobile world).

Android may seem like the golden duck for some people here, but it is not. SE X10 Mini and soon to come X8 is killing all high end Android devices. Android phones are defined by the OS, and SE has lowered the list without lowering the specs. From a consumer point the value of the X10 mini and X8 is very high, and for any devices more high end (read: more pricey) than those two, the value drops like a stone, because the OS is the same, the definition of the phone has not changed, only the price.

Google may very well want it all, but it is not realistic, the marked is by nature much too segmented and differentiated. The only way to make this happen would be if Google made different versions of Android (starter, home and pro and then some more versions). This would perhaps work if they started 10-15 years ago (as Nokia did), but not today anyway, and certainly not with an OS that is essentially open source, and not when they have no hardware on their own. For Android to even survive in the near future, they have to focus on a segment where they reach out to most people, and that is the X10 Mini/X8 segment, and for the time being this suits SE and Huawei just fine. HTC on the other hand, will soon be in real problems, but maybe not, Windows Mobile 7 is coming. Motorola on the other hand, will vanish. IMHO of course