Android

Overheard: Mobile business model about to change

Google is going to put serious pressure on the wireless communications industry to change their business models from subscription based survival to active air time marketing based on their numbers of subscribers. Gary E. Sattler, Android: Google’s answer to open source mobile

Note to self: Need to find out more about “active air time marketing” and what the business model will look like.

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.

Overheard: The Android has no clothes

“Google’s announcement of the new, “Android” smartphone platform had less substance than a fashion show at a nudist colony.” Mitch Wagner, Google’s Android: The Greatest Vaporware Smartphone Ever