[MACEP] Google Android OS will rule them all...

[Paul Nelson]

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-07/ff_android

VERY interesting article here. If you want a glimpse of the future, take a read.

"Is this interesting to Google?" That's what Andy Rubin was asking
Larry Page. It was a spring day in 2005, and the two were in a
conference room just off the main lobby at Google's headquarters. A
simple yes and Rubin would have walked away happy.

They had met three years before, when Rubin was about to launch a
smartphone he'd invented called the Sidekick. At the time, Google was
just an up-and-comer, trailing AOL and even Lycos in traffic. But
Rubin, a well-known Silicon Valley player, chose Google as the
Sidekick's default search engine. Page was flattered by the unexpected
endorsement. So when Rubin called out of the blue and requested this
meeting, well, Page couldn't say no.

The Google cofounder arrived late, as usual. Rubin walked to the
whiteboard and began his pitch. There were nearly 700 million cell
phones sold each year compared with fewer than 200 million PCs — and
the gap was widening. Increasingly, he said, phones were the way
people wanted to connect with each other and with everything else. Yet
the mobile industry was stuck in the dark ages. Unlike the Web, where
open standards had fostered a multitude of cool companies and
applications, mobile was a tyrannical, closed system, repelling all
innovators and disrupters who tried to gain entrance.

Rubin said his startup, called Android, had the solution: a free, open
source mobile platform that any coder could write for and any handset
maker could install."

Read more at: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-07/ff_android

;-) Paul