Android is another mobile software OS/platform, similar to Windows Mobile, PalmOS, and RIM's BlackBerry OS. The difference between Android and other systems is open specifications and compatibility for software regardless of what device you are using.
For example, it seems to me that with any of those OSes, for example PalmOS, I already have compatibility for software regardless of which (Palm) device I'm using.
Android isn't tied to a specific /vendor/ (unless you count Google, who isn't evil...yet), but each manufacturer must still test and sell their device with Android -- or each user must hack it -- right?
I guess I feel like without widespread adoption and a lot of interoperability with other systems (Outlook, etc), it's not worth much. And I have major concerns about the widespread adoption of this platform in anything less than 5 years. Much, much longer, if it goes anything like Linux on PCs... :-)
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niftydl @ Apr 29th 2008 12:58PM
Android is another mobile software OS/platform, similar to Windows Mobile, PalmOS, and RIM's BlackBerry OS. The difference between Android and other systems is open specifications and compatibility for software regardless of what device you are using.
D @ Apr 29th 2008 4:56PM
More info, if you could?
For example, it seems to me that with any of those OSes, for example PalmOS, I already have compatibility for software regardless of which (Palm) device I'm using.
Android isn't tied to a specific /vendor/ (unless you count Google, who isn't evil...yet), but each manufacturer must still test and sell their device with Android -- or each user must hack it -- right?
I guess I feel like without widespread adoption and a lot of interoperability with other systems (Outlook, etc), it's not worth much. And I have major concerns about the widespread adoption of this platform in anything less than 5 years. Much, much longer, if it goes anything like Linux on PCs... :-)