Feeling excited by the prospect of a genuinely open mobile phone platform that will allow free and open development across the developer community - the Android platform from Google and partners. Microsoft is famous for its corporate control but its platform does support extensive third-party development even if it is ruthless at cutting out competing platform and disfavoured third-party developers. Ironically iPhone, for all its impressive innovation in user interface, is even more fascist in its restrictive development strategy - they took forever to release a development framework for third party developers and when they did it still contained unbelievable restrictions (third party apps can´t run in the background!) which cripple whole areas of development - and of course there is only one piece of hardware you can have that platform on - not much choice however gorgeous that single model may be. Even the sorts of platform you find on Nokia phones are subject to the current fragmentary nature of the market. If Android can put together an open flexible mobile platform that invites developer innovation across the board - and allows hardware manufacturers to exploit that platform across a range of devices, there will be a true revolution in the area of mobile technology - roll on the day!!!
Monday, March 24, 2008
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