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Register Opinion - Android: Developer Dream or Google Cash Machine?
November 16th, 2007 by Head Robot
Phil Manchester at The Register offers his view of Android,
Google’s Android agenda is far from clear, but it seems money is a driving factor, rather than a genuine desire to liberate developers and phone users from the nasty old telcos with an open platform. After all, Android’s backers include some of those very carriers that liked to lock you in and have proved nothing more than an anchor on software and service innovation, but who just happen to be lagging the US market leaders.
Google does not seem interested in open source development per se - other than as a way to attract applications to Android. And it is probably not that interested in mobile handsets, either.
A clue to the way it might be thinking surfaced a couple of months ago with its application for a patent on a phone based payment system called gPay.
Read the rest of Android:Developer Dream or Google Cash Machine? at The Register.
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