Handful of Nothing

So Google, after all the speculation about the gPhone is going even higher: Android is out and it’s the Google mobile, open source, and free? version of Windows. To be more specific, Windows mobile.

I know this is a pretty simple conclusion, (actually a comparison) why Google, heading the OHA, is aiming in nicely providing a lot of people a open platform, stack, or whatever to everyone interested on creating devices. Nice nice nice move google and more, after buying Android, expectable.

To imagine that Google is actually going to make sure all device made by the involved companies can run it’s web services nicely (in or without a browser like the Gmaps on iPhone) gives you a hint of how geniuses this can turn out to be.

“With devices built on the Android Platform, users will be able to fully tailor the phone to their interests. They can swap out the phone’s homescreen, the style of the dialer, or any of the applications. They can even instruct their phones to use their favorite photo viewing application to handle the viewing of all photos.”

Being honest, if Google manages to pull this thing off as it is bragging the world it will, and also if it can convice the actual manufactures to keep it open this thing can be a major blast at least in the smartphone world (Maybe HTC is tired of giving MS money and motorola cannot sustain it’s montavista linux prices) and really put Symbian and WM to work. But, really how they are going to pull this out :

Android does not differentiate between the phone’s core applications and third-party applications.

It can be, maybe with this :

…a custom virtual machine that has been designed to optimize memory and hardware resources in a mobile environment.

I like it. To have another good competition against WM for me is enough reason, and I’m all in for big players in the mobile world.

The best thing is to see that EVERYONE is jumping on the mobile bandwagon. Nice opportunities ahead.

And to end the post …

Breaking down application boundaries
Android breaks down the barriers to building new and innovative applications. For example, a developer can combine information from the web with data on an individual’s mobile phone — such as the user’s contacts, calendar, or geographic location — to provide a more relevant user experience. With Android, a developer could build an application that enables users to view the location of their friends and be alerted when they are in the vicinity giving them a chance to connect.

Please Google tell me how are you going to convince the manufactures and carriers (ok they are in the alliance) to allow developers (with certificate and signed code only?) to access people’s Agenda, Money (calling) and so on?

Ps: Oh yeah! I was almost forgetting this : Why do not take the Linux fragmentation from desktop to mobile also? =)