Can The iPhone Survive Google’s Android?
11.05.07 - 01:25pm
Google has announced that it is entering the cell-phone world, not with a phone but with a software platform that will run on as many phones as possible. The platform is named Android.
Andriod will be the first ever “open” mobile phone platform, created to make the internet more accessible to subscribers on the move. “Our vision is that the powerful platform we are unveiling will power thousands of different phone models, ” said Eric Schmidt, Googles chairman and CEO.
So far there are 34 mobile phone companies who have signed on to to the Google alliance called the “Open Handset Alliance”. Unlike Apple’s closed iPhone the Google based phones will be specifically for open sources and open technology with the Android program based on the open-sourced Linux. “This partnership will help unleash the potential of mobile technology for billions of users around the world,” said Schmidt.
