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 | 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 - May 17 2007 | google, internet, mobiles
"There’s an interesting aspect of Google’s impact on our daily lives. The Internet is so useful - despite its quite chaotic organization - and Google is so good at retrieving information, that we don’t bother to remember anything anymore."
Creepy but true, and I don't think we'll be turning back. The next step will be integrating Google completely with our mobiles (maybe that's what the Google phone is doing). Then, except coverage dropouts, Google really will be “the other part of my brain”.
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