Comments on: Will the Open Mobile Internet shape our digital future radically? http://www.mocom2020.com/2009/02/open-mobile-internet/ Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:58:44 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Sascha http://www.mocom2020.com/2009/02/open-mobile-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Sascha Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:28:32 +0000 http://www.mocom2020.com/?p=201#comment-137 The question right now is, if Google is capable to get some central control over the Android developer community cause otherwise it will fail like any other Linux distribution, that was aiming for the consumer-market. The $10 million contest is about a year old now (or even more) and i have to admit, that the G1 interface, the backend and the whole ecosystem of Android is lightyears behind the one from Apple. That's still the problem of uncontrolled developement. And i am not saying that because i love closed software but i finally wanna see a change in the Open Source scene. Android is just not competitive right now and it will get squeezed in between the iPhone and upcoming stuff from Nokia and Palm. Of course, i am talking cellular right now cause all these affords to force Intel to get some Android netbook platforms on the market(venturebeat.com is trying everything to talk their readers and Intel into it) are just some wishful thinkings. It's a long way to go for Android but they need control over the whole project. Not over any application developement but about the fundamental usability of the software. The question right now is, if Google is capable to get some central control over the Android developer community cause otherwise it will fail like any other Linux distribution, that was aiming for the consumer-market. The $10 million contest is about a year old now (or even more) and i have to admit, that the G1 interface, the backend and the whole ecosystem of Android is lightyears behind the one from Apple.

That’s still the problem of uncontrolled developement. And i am not saying that because i love closed software but i finally wanna see a change in the Open Source scene.

Android is just not competitive right now and it will get squeezed in between the iPhone and upcoming stuff from Nokia and Palm. Of course, i am talking cellular right now cause all these affords to force Intel to get some Android netbook platforms on the market(venturebeat.com is trying everything to talk their readers and Intel into it) are just some wishful thinkings.

It’s a long way to go for Android but they need control over the whole project. Not over any application developement but about the fundamental usability of the software.

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