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Story: Why you should care about Google Android
It's about Developers and Community...
While I don't pretend to know about the "virtual parallel universe" that Shannon mentioned, I do know a little bit about the open-source development community and how it operates. And what I can say is that 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.
Cheers,
greg
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