While the obvious analysis is that they were making a Blackberry competitor, wasn't Android really targeting deployment on hardware that could Windows Mobile? i

While the obvious analysis is that they were making a Blackberry competitor, wasn't Android really targeting deployment on hardware that could Windows Mobile? iirc, the first phones running Android were slight variants of Windows Mobile hardware, which happened to have the BB form factor. And if this was the case, there were plenty of touch screen Windows Phones at the time. I think Android going touch would have been inevitable. Having said that, if Apple didn't release the iPhone, the definition of touch on Google would probably have meant "with a stylus".