Comments on: Some guy says Apple will launch ultra-portable then makes stuff up about about Android

By: dwalk51

dwalk51 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:52:56 +0000

Yes, well everything fails in the wake of the almighty iPhone.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:59:35 +0000

Aplix, Noser, TAT, Wind River != RIM or some guy who writes C# for WinMo6. Maybe I can be convinced otherwise by actual implementations but from the discussions I’ve had with OHA members I’m not seeing anything that Trolltech and Qtopia didn’t have five years ago.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:38:42 +0000

Also, he’s just flat out wrong: Verizon is not a member of the Open Handset Alliance.

By: exapted

exapted — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:37:26 +0000

What about Aplix, Noser, TAT, Wind River – Commercialization Companies in the Open Handset Alliance? Couldn’t they provide support? I don’t see Android as “Open Source” in the traditional sense of the word. It is open source for manufacturers and networks. And if there are several companies to provide support instead of just the one (as with Symbian, Windows Mobile), manufacturers and networks should be all the more confident in Android.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:20:29 +0000

Let me put it this way. I was working with a company to build a blog for them. No money changed hands, we just chatted on the phone. I recommended Wordpress for their platform – it’s extensible, it works well, thousands of people use it. But they bought a license to Typepad for the sole reason of “apparent” support. Google and OHA will get Android on handsets. I don’t doubt it. But I don’t see an open source OS getting market share above or beyond the already established players. Nobody ever got fired for installing Windows over Linux and this is the same animal.

By: AndroidGuys

AndroidGuys — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:50:39 +0000

Define “fail”.