The TMo/Sprint merger has had issues, for instance, and I personally have been less favorable to it as time went on, but it didn't mean I wasn't excited at the time to see one more death knell for CDMA.
Also Nvidia has been pretty open-source friendly with their ARM platforms in addition to their being pretty powerful in their own right, and that doesn't have to be mutually exclusive with the concerns it would raise if they controlled the whole ecosystem of ARM platforms.