If they made phones would they still be "real" OS vendors, or just more Apple? It's not that we lack OS vendors. There's no standard mobile platform like the

If they made phones would they still be "real" OS vendors, or just more Apple? It's not that we lack OS vendors. There's no standard mobile platform like the PC has been for general purpose computing. No hardware vendors are shipping handsets conforming to an open standard supplying open NDA-free specs and/or drivers for OS vendors to target. We have a number of OS vendors who would almost certainly support such hardware if it was being produced, were compelling, and affordable.