Android - An Open Handset Alliance Project

Missing the point....

The truth is you can circumvent the need to grovel, by simply sticking to the standards that already exist. If a carrier will not feature your phone in their store...so be it...there are a million+ stores online that will.

Mobile phones, currently closed and self limited, will rival broadband computers. When based on Open standards, they will deliver ubiquitous computing and vanish.