Please, no flaming from the droid crowd, but this is my take.
Nexus 1 in my opinion is leaps and bounds ahead of the droid. The nexus scraps the sub par keyboard, which makes it much slimmer. The snapdragon processor is incredible. The screen blows the droids away as well. Not to mention it is a phones entire build from the ground up is dictated by the makers of the operating system that is on it, which should equate to any os system upgrades being pushed to the device much quicker.
If you can live without a physical keyboard, you will not go wrong with the nexus.
I can understand where you are coming from on some of your points, but not all of them are valid. Scrapping the subpar keyboard? Thats a matter of personal opinion. You cant compare a keyboard device to an all touch, you would need to make a comparison in this respect to the Eris.
Screens...what about the N1 screen is that much better? Size, no...so what is it?
The processor, ok, maybe. But the overclocked Droid runs just as well as the Nexus, so really is it that big of a deal? Are people likely to multitask the phone like a computer, odds are no.
And yes, the phone was built by Google, for their OS, I get that, but the OS will still need to pass the approval of Verizon if it is sold on their network, unless it is going to be an LTE device (which I dont believe it is) then they may be able to bypass the Verizon checks.
In regards to updates, the N1 being sold and controlled by Google will always override VZW's draconian rules, only difference will be what subsidies VZW decides to throw you just like with T-Mo, you get it subsidized, but Google retains control of updates and some support
Are you sure about that? Then why is it not like that for EVERY other cell phone MFG? I mean for BB's you see official roll outs from some carriers but not others for the same OS, because it did not pass that carriers requirements, so you think Google will just be able go over ride that and change the rules?