Google is releasing it's first mobile software platform Android, on a T-mobile network, NTC phone in a few weeks. This phone will compeat on many fronts with the Apple iPhone. Like the iPhone independent developers can develop software application to run on the phones. iPhone has made a quantum leap with their phone platform. I would be first to say that the iPhone is one of the best design consumer electronic devices that I have every used.
Google entered the cell phone market after seeing the response to the iPhone. The major difference between the iPhone and Android is that Google is not building or selling phones like Apple. They are producing an open source software platform that will could run on any manufactures produced phone. The other difference is that Google is opening up the entire API (software package) to outside developers all over the world. You may ask, why and who cares. Look at it this way, the more applications that you can get for a computer/smartphones the more value it has for the consumer.
Before selecting a platform to build an application on I looked a both platforms. I also attended a conference where I got to hear from both platform developers. The major complaint from the iPhone developer was that Apple did not open the platform to all developers and that Apple has a select group of programmers that gets preferential treatment which included access to more of the iPhone facility such as BlueTooth. Don't get me wrong I think that Apple is the best product available in the PC market and hands down the iPhone is way ahead of the pack. My main concern is that Apple made this type of mistake before with their closed system architecture. This provided an unknown company named MicroSoft with the opportunity to take their market. Closed systems do not work in our open systems environment. Mash-up is where it is at in the Web 2.0 world.
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