Until Apple go directly at Android/google, until then there are many fish in the sea. As for windows phone I feel that the new Windows version 8 will in many w

Until Apple go directly at Android/google, until then there are many fish in the sea. As for windows phone I feel that the new Windows version 8 will in many ways encourage adoption of windows phones as well as force developers in many situations to in all efffect create applications that are not that many clicks away from moving from the desktop to the phone platform, if thats not the case then you can bet Microsoft will make it happen. Real fun is that it is eventualy getting down to the ability to have a phone handle basic phone stuff and everything else is run in a webbrowser HTML5 style and in that the new Mozilla mobile OS taking that approach will prove very interesting. That all said the Phone industry has historicaly been a nasty place with regards to money and patents since its very inception http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell_telephone_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell_... is a good read into the early phone history. Nothing realy changed since now has it.