Google Code home page for Android (GPhone) development (including information on the $10M development challenge Google is offering to kick-start Android development).

Quoted: Welcome to the Open Handset Alliance™, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies who have come together to accelerate innovation in mobile and offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better mobile experience. Together we have developed Android™, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.

Google is setting itself up to play "Microsoft" to Apple's "Apple". In a replay of 1984, Apple has produced an exciting new product (the iPhone), and made it proprietary (no third party hardware, no open platform for developers, not open to multiple phone networks).

Google, is "pulling a Microsoft" by taking all that is good about the iPhone and making it open (any network, any hardware manufacturer, any phone network).

Has Apple learned nothing? I guess they only want 10% of the phone market, while Google and it's partners take the rest.