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Digg founder says: Mobile Web is Next

Still looking for reasons to port your mobile application to the Android platform? This was found at www.siliconrepublic.com.

“We are on the verge of mobile application explosion,” Kevin Rose, founder of social news site Digg.com, tells siliconrepublic.com, and he credits devices like the iPhone for bringing a “true, full-featured computing experience to a small handheld device”.

Rose’s site www.digg.com was one of the first to create an iPhone-friendly version but he says that though mobile devices are the next big trend it is the internet that is driving changes in how people are accessing information with innovations like search, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), blogs and social networking as major catalysts.

“The tollbooths of information are being torn down: the cost of creating and distributing content is now so low that anyone can produce content and blast it out to the world.

“And you can access just about any type of content anywhere, so content is abundant and accessible.”

He says that the challenge now is sifting through the overwhelming amount of content we come across on a daily basis to find what is most interesting and relevant.

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Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post writes:

The company hasn’t said anything specific about the pricing of this bring-your-own-device service and doesn’t plan to until early next year. But McAdam did say that it would offer “very different” pricing for low-bandwidth devices like utility meters.

During the teleconference, Verizon Wireless executives also said that any phone running Google’s Android software would be welcome under this system, as long as it runs on the CDMA standard Verizon and Sprint use. For the same reason, any Sprint phone that passed Verizon’s compatibility testing would also pass muster — but the iPhone, which only works on GSM systems such as AT&T, could not.

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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.”

Read more about What does Google’s Open Handset Alliance announcement tell us about iPhone third-party apps? at O’Reilly Radar.

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