MG Siegler wrote an interesting piece in the TechCrunch Section of the Washington Post, titled “The Problem with iPhone Killers?“.   In this article he makes the case that the new Android phones are actually killers for Windows Mobile, Palm, Symbian, RIM, etc. — that the battle is for which operating system will be the counterweight to the Apple/iPhone ecosystem, much like we see with PCs.
 
Apple will be the “closed” system, with the simplicity of a narrow range of devices and one-stop-shop for everything.  He is betting, with good justification, that the Android operating system and business model will win out over the other non-Apple systems. For a while, it will be more confusing for customers with the wide range of devices/applications/networks, but that eventually it will have a larger world-wide device share than the iPhone family.

I find this compelling.  With the launch of the “Droid” phone and all the interest in the increased range of choice for Android devices, this will be an interesting season.