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• samuel337 - Nov 25 2007 | google, mobiles, open source, advertising

  "We’ve been digesting Google’s announcement of the Android platform and the formation of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) for the last couple of days... Our conclusion: ignore the platform itself and look at the motivation. Google’s long-term objective is not be a player in the mobile platforms business - this is all about creating market conditions compatible with its unique business model. Read on to find out why…"

  Great, well-written article exploring the reasoning behind Google's android mobile platform. After all, it's all open-sourced, and Apache-licensed, so they effectively have no control over it - so where's the business case? (no even Google doesn't give stuff away for no reason.)