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O’Reilly Radar - What does Google’s Open Handset Alliance announcement tell us about iPhone third-party apps?
November 16th, 2007 by Head Robot
Marc Hedlund writes,
It’s interesting to note that Google and the Open Handset Alliance are starting out by shipping the platform first, and shipping phones with that platform on it a year later. Andy Rubin mentioned that an SDK will be available in one week (Apple won’t have an SDK until February), and that it will be shipped with the Apache v2 license. Starting with developers — what a great way to compete with Apple. Someone asked if a manufacturer could create a “completely locked-down Android device,” and Andy Rubin responded, sure, the Apache license lets you do whatever you want, but Eric Schmidt chimed in, why would you bother? The point is having access to the applications. As he said later, “This is fundamentally a developer platform announcement.”
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