Google announced its new mobile phone software, ensuring that the money loving company can generate ad revenue anywhere in the world.
Well, not anywhere. The biggest downside of the new Google enabled phone is that it will only be released in markets where T-Mobile's 3G network is available. The software can't run on slower networks. The software is being released on T-Mobile's G1 phone.
The coolest thing about the software, built on the Android platform, is that it is open, so anyone with the know-how can create an application for use on the software. This isn't particularly new (thank you Apple) but it's certainly pushing the philosophy of openness out to the rest of the world.
too bad the phone doesn't support multitouch or multiple user integration... also the 1gb download cap is going to piss off a lot of people.
ReplyDeletegive it a year to get on a few more platforms and to fix the kinks in the app system (it's a mess). They're utilizing a youtube style approach to applications where the good user content naturally floats to the top based off of popularity, unfortunately you have to wade through a lot of crap to get there.
Good point about wading through crap. But a community of app developers and users will be able to to bring the good apps up to the top relatively quickly. If there's bad content in any community, it'll sink to the bottom
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