Android - Google Becomes a Man
Although, Google’s announcement of Open social has gained all the press as of late, the Android announcement is much more exciting to me:
- Open Social - don’t believe the hype
- Unlike the hurried, half-baked Open Social thing, Android has been in the oven for quite a while (@ least in our sense of time) - Google acquired the company in August ‘05 and at the time the company was 22 months old
- Android will be available for ANY phone manufacturer to install and build on top of - not just one - take that Apple
- The phones should be affordable and the power of mobility can be shared amongst all
- It will allow for extensive use of third party apps - developers, developers…
- Apps will in time live on portable devices other than phones like car navigation systems
- I heart mobile
The SDK will be available soon - I’ll be taking a look. The only funky thing is that apparently the VM will not be Java ME/MIDP-based but some kind of C-based SDK. That is not necessarily a bad thing but it does mean that the existing suite of Java ME apps may not just work on Android powered devices.