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The Wall Street Journal talks to Google’s Rich Miner:

If you can measure a new technology’s popularity by the number of companies trying to attach their names to it, then Google’s new Android mobile-phone platform is a big deal.

By the time I left the office yesterday, I’d heard from the developer of Android’s voice-command software, a company providing fonts for Android, a publicist for a competing Linux mobile software effort, yet another mobile-Linux software developer, a firm that sells cheap international cell-phone calling, the Public Knowledge think tank (which basically opined “Yay, Google!”) and CTIA, the wireless industry’s trade association (”If ever there was evidence that so-called ‘net neutrality’ rules were not needed, today’s news is it”).

This kind of breathless anticipation says something–and not just that a lot of people are unhappy with their cell phones. Google’s past successes have rightly led people to expect great things from the Mountain View, Calif., company, and now it has given itself one of the toughest tasks imaginable: reinventing the mobile phone with this new, open-source software.
To read the questions and answers, read the rest of Analyzing Google’s “Android” at The Wall Street Journal

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