Right on Andy! He's part of the reason Android has been such a success.

I think the critical element at first is "open to developers"… users come later.

Part of this is the open-to-phone-developers part. When I go computer shopping, there are ten or fifteen major brands of WIndows PC, and there's Apple. I can get two or three sizes of virtually identical, overpriced laptops from Apple, an all-in-one (the iMac, a "desktop" built inside a monitor using laptop components), or a larger one, but they're all the same.

Then I look in the PC section… which is the other 90% of the store. PCs come in every shape and size. I can get a netbook or cheap desktop for $250, or a multiprocessor rack mount, or anything in-between. I can "roll my own" from tons of commodity and specialty components. Apple could include a free naked serving wench with every Mac purchase, and I'd still have to question the deal.

The same thing is already happening with smart phones, and tablets are "on deck". The iPhone is a fine enough smart phone, if you don't mind the fairly ugly look of the thing (chrome was fine on my '61 T-Bird… haven't had much taste for it since). But it's one size fits all. The iPad's the next one up… one size fits all. And in both cases, the size is "extra small"… they're just charging more money and leaving out features.

So today, you can buy one iPhone with a few memory options from AT&T, or dozens of different Android phones from nearly every hardware vendor and network provider. We read here every month of another super amazing Android phone release or rumor… over in the iPhone world? Well, it's been a boom year… three big annoucements (iPad, iPhoneOS, and Real Soon Now, the new iPhone that leaked out two weeks ago… which itself was kind of a yawn, far as I can tell). At least they nixed the chrome trim.

Yea he did an awesome job copying the iPhone…..WOW!! Great job!!