Submitted by “Google invited developers to its London office for one of three workshops – the others being in Munich and Tel Aviv to spread the word and teach developers how to write for their new OS. Here’s what they told us. The mantra for Android is that it’s ‘a complete and modern embedded OS, with a cutting edge mobile user experience, a world class software stack for building apps and open platform for developers users and industry’.”
It maybe a crowded market, but I’m yet to be convinced any of the above do these devices well.
The iPhone is riddled with vendor lock ins, Palms OS is years old, Blackberry are plagued with security holes, I’ve never been a fan of SE or Nokia smart phones. Windows Mobile is also sevearly lacking an inturative interface.
I’d love to see what the Android is like in real life as on paper it sounds very promising.
NB Please excuse the Radiohead reference in the title – someone had to post it so I may as well be the first.
Radiohead were just alluding to the late great Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, which had Marvin the paranoid android as a character.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android
Edited 2008-02-04 16:58 UTC
What makes you or anyone else think Google won’t do their best to lock people into using Google as much as absolutely possible while still promoting it as anything else but?
They’re a large for-profit company, and despite their claim of “do no evil” they’ll do their best to monetize everything that isn’t part of their philanthropic arm, because, once again, that’s what they are, and that’s exactly what their shareholders (which probably most of the employees also are) demand from them. This is the nature of the beast of any entity that does things for profit, we all might as well accept it and get used to it, if we weren’t already.
Hence why I’ve said “I’d love to see the product in real life as on paper it sounds promising.“.
I’m not going to pass judgment on a product that isn’t even released yet. To do so would be daft.
However the article does make references to google supporting and actively encouraging fellow Android developers to support the open source movement – which on paper is a very promising read.
@ chemical_scum:
Indeed. I’m a fellow Douglas Adams fan.
Edited 2008-02-04 18:28 UTC
Another new wheel. I think android is too complicated. If they had just adopted inferno (with dis and limbo) as their standard and added some desired functionality I would be much happier: http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/