[PreciousLiberty]

Here I thought we were talking Microsoft. ;-)

Android is doing pretty well, but as I mentioned in #184, there’s trouble in paradise.

The beneficial effect of Android will be for Apple to drop AT&T exclusivity. Then you’ll see iPhone head back up.

You also apparently fail to realize that Android makes it that much harder for WM7 to get mindshare and marketshare.

By the way, Beck isn’t a Republican so it’s hard to see how he reflects badly on that party. ;-)

[SmokingJoe]

Apple will almost certainly drop AT&T exclusivity sooner rather than later, but whether they can gain share against Android or not is another matter. Google seems to be much more nimble and more responsive to the market and consumer needs than Apple is.
As for Windows Phone 7, while it seems to be a very good OS, no one knows how successful it will be when it launches, given that Windows Mobile would have fallen even further behind in market share, and Android would be even further ahead, by the time Win Phone 7 phones launch at the end of the year.
Microsoft has been too damn slow in responding to Android.