Oh God! Yet Another Lame Carrier-Backed Mobile OS

http://gigaom.com/2010/09/17/oh-god-yet-another-lame-carrier-backed-mobile-os/

"Let's face it: the mobile game is all about the developers. Developers maketh and developers taketh away. The carriers and their OS efforts are only going to be good if they gain traction with developers, and that's hard considering the effortsalready invested in iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Symbian.
The phone companies are suddenly realizing, "Oops, we're losing grip on our customers." The customers who use iPhones use Apple's billing systems. Android users will make money for Google via its mobile ad systems, and eventually through Google's other mobile services like Google Checkout. Mobile app developers — who in the pre-iPhone era paid millions of dollars in baksheeshto get on the carrier decks — no longer have to deal with the draconian bureaucrats at these mobile operators.
Sure they try to re-create carrier decks by launching their own mobile stores on smartphones — T-Mobile has done it, and so has Verizon with its VCast Store — but the fact remains:Nnone of these have the same money-gouging potential as the carrier deck.
These attempts are like seeing a middle-aged uncle, who upon finding that his wife left him, gets back into the dating game. He tries to feel hip by wearing Ben Sherman shirts and skinny jeans. The only person who doesn't quite grok how ridiculous he looks is him!"