@Godzil
You have to look at it from a wider perspective. A company selling closed hardware and closed software is just that - a company. Their product will disappear with the company. Who knows what will happen with Apple and OSX when Steve Jobs retires.
But take linux as an example. It's not a product, it's a concept independent on his creator, adopted by many throughout the world. Linux will be here for a very long time.
Android is not a layer, it's a full blown OS, you're right about it running on top of linux kernel though. It's open, anyone can grab the source code and port it to their hardware and make neccessary adjustments, e.g. for power saving, which you were concerned about. It's not closely tied to mobile phones' hardware as has been shown by succesful ports to other devices, netbooks even. Plus I can't imagine a group of appliances with more diverse hardware than mobile phones (at least in the past). The more devices Android is run on, the stronger it's position, the longer its life expectancy.
Android makes manufactuers accept some standards, if they want to roll out an android phone and many of them do.
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Originally Posted by Godzil
Why anothoer company will risk to make software for such hardware with a very strong chance to never sell/give it enought to be rentable?
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You know, maybe not everyone has the money to make their own hardware, so that they can write software for it. But I think that iphone apps store or android marketplace proves you wrong in this respect. So no more arguments needed from me.