Mostly confused. I don't really see the point of the purchase. Are they planing on protecting their android partners like HTC and Samsung? Now that the hard

Mostly confused. I don't really see the point of the purchase. Are they planing on protecting their android partners like HTC and Samsung? Now that the hard part is done (brand building), are they going to consume the market by having their own internal projects release before everyone else and be the best supported? Is there going to be a HTC\Samsung\LG etc. fork of Android?