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gPhone- Android and the clone wars |
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
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This week Google announced Andriod, the long awaited gPhone. More importantly they discussed the details of their approach called the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) of multiple handset hardware and OS vendors. This appears to be a stroke of genius in my view. The name Android evokes thoughts of the 1980s PC clone wars and the fact that Apple was ahead with the Macintosh for UI and experience, but Microsoft caught up by defining an OS and hardware clone manufacturers just conformed to a specification for hardware that could run the OS. This is a promising strategy. I am interested to see what happens as actual specs come out and we se some prototypes from the various companies. 1984 all over again? What do you think?
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