I really wished Google or (more appropriately) Blackberry would have gone the opposite direction from Apple. Good keyboard support something more in the Raskin's Cat vein. It's nice to see Microsoft go with their Metro interface or the card metaphor of WebOS. Heck, just starting with a browser ala Chrome would have been better. The talk shouldn't be about patent violations, it should be about lack of vision.

I too believe much of this has to do with Schmidt on the board and the radical change of Android from pre to post iPhone. It just seems we really lost something when they made their switch.