Will the ALP be the next mobile Linux OS?

Back when PalmSource announced the next version of the Palm OS would be ALP they also said it would have backwards compatibility for the Garnet (Palm OS 5.x) OS, but it sounds like ACCESS is dropping that from the OS now.

It is amazing to me that the "early look" SDK of the Google Android OS was given to developers just late last year on 12 November 2007 and here we are a bit under a year later with a fully operational and quite stable Google Android device being released from a major U.S. carrier. History seems to indicate that Google probably started working on Android sometime in late 2005/early 2006. However, compare this with the ALP that was formerly announced in February 2006 with no actual devices on the horizon for at least another year. I guess it helps to have a company with major resource like Google behind you, huh?

I continue to remain skeptical of the ALP and Palm's own Linux OS and if I was a betting man I would definitely be putting my money on Android right now, especially given how this early first generation device has been performing under my real world conditions.