It happened before, and so it happens again.
Open Handset Alliance
I'm not saying that such an open ecosystem for smartphone existed before. I'm just saying that this alliance sounds very like Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE). Perhaps it will also impact the industry like Java EE did. We shall see.
Being a developer-minded person, I would definitely look into it, even just for the notion "All applications are created equal".
That's where they nailed it. Symbian, UIQ, iPhone or Microsoft all suffer from not-so-decent built-in applications. The real tragedy about that is that developers are not allowed to modify core built-in applications such as address book and calendar. Yes, there are certain APIs here and there, but that's never enough. I hope that such kind of problem can be addressed by this alliance.
Well, congratulations to Google for another job/strategy well done. No matter who wins this war, software developers are going to benefit from it, I'm sure.
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