Now that we know Google is only in it for the cash—not the consumer—we can now begin to evaluate how their Open Handset Alliance and Open Access initiatives are going. Hint: not well. The telcos never actually did anything to work with Google’s vision, so it’s just business as usual in Android-land. (For the record, Apple’s in it for the money, too, but at least they’re doing something disruptive by not letting the telcos run the show.)
The passing fancies of a partial observer.
August 23, 2010
Android: Power to the Incumbents!
July 22, 2010
"The difference between Android and iOS isn’t that Android comes with undeletable default apps and iOS doesn’t. Lots of iPhone users wish they could get rid of apps like Stocks and Weather. The difference is who gets to decide on those defaults apps. With iOS, it’s Apple. With Android, it’s the carrier."
— @gruber — makes me wish tumblr hadn’t repeatedly eaten my essay on Android market fragmentation, otherwise you would have already known this. Note that this obviously cuts both ways: sometimes AT&T gets in the way, too :).
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