Sounds perfectly reasonable and I hope they can pull it off. Google hasn't shown the UI design sensitivity necessary to compete with the iPhone UI, but they are

Sounds perfectly reasonable and I hope they can pull it off. Google hasn't shown the UI design sensitivity necessary to compete with the iPhone UI, but they are determined and iterate quickly, so they can probably get to a point where their UI will be better than what handset manufacturers can come up with. Openness is great, but being open without setting a high standard is not good in the long run.