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3 walled gardens is a very, very bad thing. Couple this with what Google's doing with the new Play Services and Motorola and with what Apple's been doing the entire time, and we could be in for a world of hurt when there are no "open" platforms (as in, for OEMs to build for).

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2013 is the debut year of Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, and Samsung's supposed flagship Tizen phone. Now, the question is if carriers, consumers and OEMs will respond to them with any enthusiasm, or treat them like third parties in American politics.

That would depend entirely on how they present themselves. If those players decide to come off like Linux on the desktop does (where "open"-ness is the main selling point, something utterly irrelevant to people who aren't a particular breed of techie), nobody will care.

Nobody ever successfully sold a platform based on its political leanings.

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