Google has definitely spoiled Apple's party, at the expense largely of everyone else as well as *not* taking on some of the more visible problems with the mobile phone industry.

Buying Motorola gives them a manufacturing platform. But I have to wonder who is in Google's sights first: the carriers or the other OEMs. I've gotten the feeling before the HTC would rather not kowtow quite so easily to the carriers, but maybe they need someone bigger to help blaze the way?

Wade.