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So how many Mobile Operating Systems can the market support. It used to be that each phone manufacturer built their own or modified someone else's. They were built for calling people and storing contacts. Pretty simple stuff.

Then came the ”Smart Phone”

The smart phone was "smarter" right? It allowed you to sync your phone to your computer. The smart phone could allow you to do e-mail, surf the web and most of all text messaging was born. When Apple's iPhone hit the scene add music and movie playback to that list, as well as storing photo. The phone was morphing into a mini computer, one that had to work with your desktop or laptop. That's where the iOS has excelled and Android is trying to do the same. 

Can the market support six or more OSes?

• iOS (Apple)
• Android (Google, Motorola, HTC, and others)
• Win 7 Mobile (Microsoft)
• WebOS (HP)
• MeeGo (Nokia)
• Blackberry (RIM)

I don't know. Maybe. It did before when phones were just phones. The question is now a phone is a development platform with all sorts of wild apps out there. WIll developers want to develop for six platforms? What apps are necessary to make a phone usable to the average consumer? If there are say only 20 basic apps needed and those can be developed by the OS manufacturer, then we may see six platforms for a long while. If it requires a mobile OS's to have tens of thousand apps to survive, then we'll probably end up with two, maybe three.

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