Would You Buy a Handset because of its OS?

Don't you? Maybe, I will if the price is much cheaper than the others. But, hey, a mobile device, such as handset, is expensive due to its hardware, not the software, am I right? So does this Android OS based on Linux going to hit the market, like iPhone? I think probably not unless Google gives free hardware to us. Majority of the peoples won't buy a handset because of the OS.