And equally available for quality hardware producers to use on their quality products. iOS and Blackberry OS are available for Apple's and RIM's use only.

@tadfisher, looks like there are way more crappy Android phones out there than high quality ones.

And this statement, while valid and testable under some definition of "crappy", has nothing to do with comparing hardware quality between manufacturers. This reminds me of the smear campaigns Apple used to wage against beige boxes, nevermind the sheer diversity of hardware running Windows and the homogeneity of Macs.

Android is a "platform" brand.