" The idea is that cellphone manufacturers will be able to use the standard, open (and Linux-based) Android platform for free, to power their future cellphones (the first ones will be out in the second half of next year). And, as you might imagine, the new Google-provided mobile OS will have deep hooks into Google applications like search, maps, documents, RSS readers and, yes, ads. Ads that will know where you are and can serve geo- specific messages thanks to the GPS chips coming to almost all smartphones in the near future."
"So, let's pull this altogether. OpenSocial was about Google maintaining ad dominance in the face of a threat by Facebook/ Microsoft. Android and the Open Handset Alliance is about Google not only owning the mobile ad space, but becoming the Microsoft of the next two decades. It wants to own the mobile operating system space the way Microsoft owns the desktop now." http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?x=64351 _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community