Android does not differentiate between the phone's core applications and third-party applications. They can all be built to have equal access to a phone's capabilities
users will be able to fully tailor the phone to their interests. They can swap out the phone's homescreen, the style of the dialer, or any of the applications
a developer can combine information from the web with data on an individual's mobile phone -- such as the user's contacts, calendar, or geographic location. With Android, a developer could build an application that enables users to view the location of their friends and be alerted when they are in the vicinity giving them a chance to connect.
allows devices to communicate with one another enabling rich peer-to-peer social applications
@fooishbar why is Java any worse than other choices? You can do a good or bad implementation using whichever language that's chosen. At least you get some attempt at security with the language.
....and the reality is, 90% of all mobile apps are developed in Java. This will allow tons of existing mobile developers to step right in and it's a good match to operator/carrier interests in OHA.
Nothing wrong with Java, as long as it's not totally messed up like Sun let it happen with J2ME... which brings up interesting questions about governance and who ends up calling the shots...
@jyri, don't mean to be selfish, but can you serve up any information on what Jaiku will look like in the short/mid term?
Android sounds very cool! Google is the only company in the world that could have (or would have for that matter) go in this direction.
One piece of information I haven't seen yet (maybe I've missed it) is where the mobile advertising opportunities are. Surely Google wants to serve up mobile ads.
@tedd my reading of it is about opening the market up, making it bigger. Carriers have stonewalled it 4 too long. This gives google a good position for ad serving later.
The fact that Google provides the carriers with an open and free platform doesn't mean that they couldn't keep on stonewalling the market as they please...
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Sounds like a really good move, I'll be watching the details unfold with interest over the coming months. :)
1 year, 8 months ago by zenith
How do you keep a deal with 34 partners this quiet? :)
1 year, 8 months ago by aehn
The key points:
1 year, 8 months ago by jyri
Cool!
1 year, 8 months ago by tonzylstra
just reading this with @cervus
1 year, 8 months ago by vascellari
So, we will have an embedded Jaiku-like! Wow
1 year, 8 months ago by axl
It looks really promising, more so than the iPhone!
1 year, 8 months ago by zenith
Based on this I can see why you made to Google @Jyri, sounds like the perfect platform for mobile social software.
1 year, 8 months ago by kaeru
Isn't this cool or what! Fully customizable phone interface. Way to go!
1 year, 8 months ago by hessuj
From a purely technical point of view -- oh god, Java.
1 year, 8 months ago by fooishbar
(Disclosure of bias: I work for a Finnish company that's not part of OHA.)
1 year, 8 months ago by fooishbar
wondering what @teemu thinks about it
1 year, 8 months ago by vascellari
@fooishbar why is Java any worse than other choices? You can do a good or bad implementation using whichever language that's chosen. At least you get some attempt at security with the language.
1 year, 8 months ago by sulka
....and the reality is, 90% of all mobile apps are developed in Java. This will allow tons of existing mobile developers to step right in and it's a good match to operator/carrier interests in OHA.
1 year, 8 months ago by jeroen020
Getting really interesting. Very cool!
1 year, 8 months ago by villevesterinen
Nothing wrong with Java, as long as it's not totally messed up like Sun let it happen with J2ME... which brings up interesting questions about governance and who ends up calling the shots...
1 year, 8 months ago by peter
@jyri, don't mean to be selfish, but can you serve up any information on what Jaiku will look like in the short/mid term?
Android sounds very cool! Google is the only company in the world that could have (or would have for that matter) go in this direction.
One piece of information I haven't seen yet (maybe I've missed it) is where the mobile advertising opportunities are. Surely Google wants to serve up mobile ads.
1 year, 8 months ago by tedd
@tedd we'll post update as soon as we're ready
1 year, 8 months ago by jyri
@tedd my reading of it is about opening the market up, making it bigger. Carriers have stonewalled it 4 too long. This gives google a good position for ad serving later.
1 year, 8 months ago by fin
The fact that Google provides the carriers with an open and free platform doesn't mean that they couldn't keep on stonewalling the market as they please...
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/the-gphone-so-open-it-could-be-closed/
"There’s no word yet whether Google will write its own remote bricking module or whether it is counting on the open source community to add that."
1 year, 8 months ago by tonio
hey @jyri what do u think Android™ will do to open moko ?
1 year, 8 months ago by BUGabundo