Way to go on the punctuation by the way. I'm not even sure which way you're arguing in the second half of the paragraph...
Are you saying that the other
handset manufacturers who joined the OHA make inherently bad phones, or that those who say such things do so because of a baseless fallacy?
I reckon more Android handsets can only be a good thing; without these, people will just think of the G1 as "that weird googlephone", rather than considering Android for their OS on whatever candybar, slider or flipphone formfactor they prefer.