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The essential aspect of the iPhone is that it finally sets developers loose into a worldwide carrier ecocsystem. Apple was able to kick down a lot of fences for them and flatten out the balkanization (though Asia remains resistent.) Pent-up developer creativity has finally been unleashed.

Much the same will be true of the gPhone. Further, gPhone's consortium approach will excel; there will eventually be dozens of gPhone models, while Apple only has one or two iPhones. Analagous to nVidia's OEM approach to graphic chips beating ATI's. I am betting that Google's generally more open approach to the OS, the manufacturers, and the developers, will prove superior in the long run. The biggest obstacle is the current lack of a gPhone store, developers who want to eat will largely set aside their philosophical objections to Apple's iron fisted control.

While I'm surprised at the vehemence of the Apple cult spin agains the gPhone, try stretching your mind a year into the future. Hear me now, believe me later: Google will let their code do the talking, as they have done so successfully in the past. Apple's lead is not insurmountable. And consumers all benefit from the competition.