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“Why you should care about Google Android” featured

Posted by Brian at 01:03 | Filed In blog

OHAdev’s own Greg: post on ZDNet communityOHAdev’s own Greg had the featured story on ZDNet Community today (SDK day), discussing the role of developers and community in the success of Android with his post “Why you should care about Google Android“.

From Greg’s posting:

[…] With an open standard such as Android to build upon, Google’s mobile initiative is much more likely to survive than if it had gone with a more “standard” approach to entering the phone industry (a la the iPhone).

With a strong community of developers, Android could forge new, unexpected collaborations between programmers, allowing them to iteratively increase the platform’s stability and utility to your average mobile handset maker or service provider.

No, this doesn’t mean that your average student programmer will be able to make the next iTunes–it has always been the case that good, beautiful software still takes lots of design, hard work, and testing, but what we may see with Android is a slight twisting of the nozzle, pressurized by the force open-source software, starting to empty into the giant, empty pool that is the mobile phone market.

Stay tuned for our end of SDK-day wrapup, we’ll be helping you digest the massive SDK release and offer our thoughts on what it will mean for mobile development.

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