Although the rest of the world has already gotten their fill of Google’s up-and-coming phone OS/paperweight the BBC just got an exclusive look at some pre-alpha hardware that may or may not really be running Android natively. Queen’s Knight Sir Darren Waters III Esq. Adm. writes:
Google says they are driving the Android initiative because they want to see internet-style development on mobile platforms in the way that the openness of the web has given rise to Facebook and the Web 2.0 movement which should be able to migrate to the mobile phone.
Of course, coming in at the ground level of Android will give Google plenty of opportunity to tailor its own applications.
No-one company dominates the mobile web as yet – perhaps this is Google’s chance.
As we all know, this is much like saying “perhaps this is Ford’s turn to dominate the mobile phone market,” wagering that any company with money and a general understanding of technology can create a phone OS, but that’s just me being pessimistic. Palm made a hole and I think Google may be able to fill it, but it’s going to be hard going.
Are you just feeling really, really racially ignorant today John, or are is this your standard fair?
The English are a race?
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a race as “a group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group”
So, yeah, they are.
Right, so it’s the English AND Irish you stereotype, nice piece of lazy journalism.
As a member of the American Race, I’d just like to say, “I’m not racist, I hate everybody equally.”
You guys are idiots. Americans mock the British and the British mock Americans back. It’s not a fucking big deal.
“any company with money and a general understanding of technology can create a phone OS”
I won’t disagree. However, you need to think of how google might view things.
It seems to me that google realizes that we are leaving the era when phones are seen as appliances, where functionality and hardware are one package, and entering a new era when phones are seen more as computers.
Imagine if every computer hardware manufacturer had their own operating system. Computers would be much much expensive, difficult to learn and use, insecure, and incompatible with each other.
Do you can see what we stand to gain if many or most phones ran some variant of Andriod or some other stable, standard OS?