"and the way I see it, M$ seems to have
cornered all the players in the field to have a bite of the Windows
Mobile pie."
Well... I would say not so fast. First of all, the king of the mobile
hill, Nokia has brought out it's own Crackberry-clone. And worst enemy
of M$ seems to be itself:
With that track record, any handset maker should be very scared to do
business with Redmond. Plus, Apple knows very well that after a while,
people would hate to carry two bricks in their pocket - it's either a
cellphone or an iPod (you might have observed itunes popping up in
motorola's phones). So future indeed seems to be interesting ;)