The argument against Android has always been that manufacturers using it have no power over their users. By that, I mean that customers could pick up another br

The argument against Android has always been that manufacturers using it have no power over their users. By that, I mean that customers could pick up another brand and it would still be Android. I remember reading some tech sites opinions on the Nokia-WP7 strategy and how the benefit was that it would give Nokia that edge that separates it from being just another manufacturer. But if Nokia is successful and WP dominates, what's to stop everyone else from using WP as well? I guess skinning it, which is one of Nokia's rights in the Nokia-Microsoft deal, but that's like what HTC is doing with Sense and Samsung with TouchWiz. It's not as if a skin will really give you an edge. The only real way to have won is to have your own OS and to be in control it. Meego might have worked better for Nokia than WP7 long-term since Nokia could influence the direction Meego was going in.