Google's Android 'designed to drive fragmentation'
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| The search-engine giant wants to ensure there's no equivalent of Microsoft
| Office in the mobile phone world. So says Sanjay Jha, chief operating officer
| of Qualcomm's chipset division QCT. "Google wants fragmentation in the
| industry [and] is putting a lot of resources behind Linux" he told us.
|
| It is Office which drives desktop users towards Windows, despite the
| availability of alternative products. Office works best on Windows, and users
| want to be able to integrate with the word processors, spreadsheets and
| presentation software that everyone else is using.
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| If mobile devices converge on one or two platforms, then developers will
| decide it's worth porting native applications only to these platforms – as in
| the desktop world. But with fragmented environments Web 2.0 technologies
| become the only effective way to create mobile applications. These are the
| kinds of applications at which Google excels. Launching a new platform, and
| putting considerable resources behind it, is an effective way of preventing
| platform consolidation.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/03/android_qualcomm/
Related:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Is Google Android the Next Windows?
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| On the flip side, Good Android (here’s a video demo) is a cross-platform
| software environment that multiple hardware vendors and service providers are
| expected to embrace. Although Android isn’t fully baked, Google is
| aggressively promoting the operating environment to third party developers.
| The idea is to get developers on board early, so that tons of Android
| applications are ready when Android-compatible devices finally debut.
|
| [...]
|
| Eventually, The VAR Guy suspects, Android devices will easily leapfrog
| iPhone’s market share. But that’s not a terrible thing for Apple. Although
| Apple nearly died on the desktop, Apple’s more recent innovations prove that
| you can thrive even when you hold less than 10 percent of a technology
| market.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/03/20/is-google-android-the-next-windows/
Google Exec: Android To Beat iPhone
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| Rich Miner even went after Apple's handheld darling. "Once you have devices
| out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there's a much larger
| potential market on Android than for the iPhone," he said. "[T]here's a
| single manufacturer, it's targeted at a particular demographic, and it falls
| far short of the 1 billion mobile phones sold every year worldwide."
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/03/17/google-exec-android-to-beat-iphone
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