1. Andy Rubin from Google is a total douche and a completely disingenuous person. He's working for the perfect company, since that's Google motto.

2. Microsoft's OS is great news for everyone other than Google - if anyone is going to lose market share to MS it will be Google. The MS phone simply doesn't compete with RIM and Apple's products for OEM attention. It's going to help create confusion both in product execution and delivery for OEMs and it's going to create branding and market confusion for consumers for those OEM's products- good news for Apple and RIM.

3. I don't see the road ahead paved with fantastic apps for MS Phone. I see the potential for a lot of crap given history and the ease of development with new tools. You make something too easy and people are going to take a very easy/lax approach to quality as well.