Seriousness though, I guess android O/S techies just got an extension to the shelf life of this skillset if we get into an out war on Android O/S stock versus Android-modified Kindle versus soon to be Android O/S FB phone + Google TV…
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I hope not. If google were to do this, it would most likely drive the other handset makers away. Originally HTC and Samnsung put a lot of resources into android. Then when this mot-google deal was announced, they must have panicked because they started making windows mobile phones too. I feel that was an insurance in case google actually kept MMI and used them as a real competitive threat.
I hope for the android platform’s sake, google uses the motorola asset (aside from the primary purpose of having a patent library to ward of patent fights) as more of a “reference platform” to push this platform forward and get different phone makers to come up with a more unified solution. Not as a vehicle to steal business away from the other handset makers. Having Samsung/Android at the #2 spot in smartphone biz and HTC / LG and a bunch of low cost chinese companies in the market, it’s really needed.
As far as RIMM, I think unless someone like Facebook with an ecosystem buys them, it’s game over.Nokia will probably be bought by microsoft if in the end it can’t stand up on it’s own…
I predict a software that will soon be popular is virtualization software on the mobile phone…
Similar to parallels or virtualbox on the pc, the software will allow a mobile phone to run multiple O/S in a virtualized fashion.
The way things are going, you kinda of need it soon.
It’s already possible for the phone to support multi-booting… Some folks have figured out how to multi-boot a phone on android o/s, ubuntu (yes that’s been done), and multiple versions of it without reflashing.
It’s just a matter of time before someone allows booting one o/s will running inside another host one…
Folks already figured out how to get android o/s running on an iPhone. This asian dude did (no, that’s not me)…
And someone probably is end up creating a hack-in-phone and get iOS running on Android in the future.
