Starting to see where Android could take the Market

Motorola is betting the farm on Android which is great for Android manufacture and developers. Motorola like Apple need to make a profit off of their Smartphone production. Motorola is just the type of company that Android needs to move up the ladder of recognition and sales.

iPhone is a great platform but Apple has had many stumbles on the way to the top, especially with the development community. What I have learn from the early days at CyberCash it is not alway best to be first. Most non-proprietary developers (java, open source) want to have the freedom to express their art in there development. A tightly closed environment such as Apple stifles developers ideas and best products. On the other side of the coin, Apples closed environment has help them to produce good stable products. Motorola may have the blend of both worlds. Motorola has the tools an oportunity to lead the smartphone market. It will depend on if they can get back to their roots, building good products, with good support. I hope they also learned their lessons with the Iridium Project that you cannot move all of your development offshore and keep control. It will also depend on their marketing, Apple hands down has the marketing down.

We will have to wait and see what happens. As a developer of products for both the iPhone and Android, May the better phone win. As a developer of both platforms I will have to go with Android.