Starting from another point of view, i think we're living the re-invention of technology, just this time adding with the word "mobile".
Nokia is like Commodore in the 80's.The great beast of those times when what was important was the hardware manufacturers,and you used to buy hardware,and more or less live with the OS bundled with it.And, as Commodore did, tried to keep that same philosophy when the market turned to be OS driven, instead hardware driven.As i see it, this is pretty much what we're living today, but...i dont know what the "typical" user thinks...But,at least me, i dont want this new wave to reinvent all the wheels again..Reinventing OS's just for the sake of marketing and the ability to control the ecosystems (ie, "stores")...Once the "mobile" computing hardware gets enough power to catch-up with traditional OS's and software, i want *those* in mobile devices...Or this reinvention will only leave benefits for Companies who have had another oportunity to fight what they lose in the "non-mobile" computing war (ie, Apple), and not for us, users.