samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 20 2007 | google, open source, development, mobiles
"Today Google released the Android platform SDK for Open Handset Alliance devices. Android contains a custom Dalvik virtual machine for running applications written in a subset of Java... Instead of providing a full version of the Java SE or Java ME Google has diverged on two fronts. First, a limited subset of the core Java packages is provided."
Nice overview of Android from a developer's perspective, but wtf Google! Let's fragment the mobile world further by introducing another incompatible app platform!
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - 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.)
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 20 2007 | software, google, open source
"Google hopes to promote third-party mobile software development and foster a broad developer community on top of Android's Linux-based mobile platform... Although the underlying Linux kernel is licensed under version 2 of the Free Software Foundation's General Public License (GPLv2), much of the user-space software infrastructure that will make up the Open Handset Alliance's platform will be distributed under version 2 of the Apache Software License (ASL)."
Good analysis here, and a very smart decision by Google. At least one heavy user and contributor of open-source software realises that the world isn't open-source vs. proprietary (although that may be because a lot of Google's stuff is proprietary built on open-source code).
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - May 31 2007 | google, open source, web apps
"Google has launched Google Gears, an open source platform that allows online properties -- such as Gmail and any other Web application -- to be used offline..."A good example is Gmail -- an online e-mail application. What do you do when you are on a plane? You can't use Gmail ... but once Gmail is Gears-enabled, you will be able to use Gmail on and off the plane," he said."
Expected nothing less from Google. Pretty good move, but some day they'll break out of the browser. Interesting that you use standard SQL to communicate with it, and that Adobe is a partner. Could this be the tool Google needs to tackle the Office monolith?
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