Overheard: Open Handset Alliance

“About every three months this year there has been a mobile Linux initiative of some sort launched. It’s a bit like the common cold. It keeps coming round and then we go back to business.” John Forsyth

The Open Handset Alliance is a consortium led by Google to develop open standards for mobile devices. In Darren Waters article, Symbian dismisses Google Android, John Forsyth, vice president of strategy at Symbian wonders whether developers will flock to Android. I think they will.