K: Bless me Father for I have sinned, it's been a month since my last Blog post...
F: Go write 1,000 lines of c# and a Linq query...
Yup, I've been away from the Blogosphere for a while, no excuse really, just got out of the “habit”... (Pun intended)
But today’s (or should I say yesterday’s) Google announcement has stirred the beast in me. The Android has been let out of the US Robotics workshop... (That’s Asimov’s, not the Modem Company)
Ensuring that everyone but Apple, Microsoft and Nokia was invited (not really true) Google held a press conference yesterday with the Open Handset Alliance to tell everyone... No we aren’t announcing a GPhone today; we are announcing a thousand GPhone’s.
O, good one Google, another operating system for us developers to have to conform to... When asked if this will fragment the industry more, they kind of shirted around the issue by saying “this new OS is great as its open so anyone can take it and modify it.” – surely that WILL fragment it even more! You’ll get a Samsung version, a Motorola version!!! ARRRGGHHHH....
But hey, I don’t care... Because as far as I’m concerned the Android platform will be good for one thing, BROWSING... Getting Google on your phone...
So, yes we should all be interested in what they are up to and yes we should be very interested in how we are to show our lovely new retail website on the Android browser...
But no we shouldn’t be worried about how we can connect to Exchange or will it give me my email faster than the speed of light.
Nor should we be concerned about translating that LOB application that Bob uses in accounts to his device that runs it, because it just won’t be designed for it.
So Android go sic the completion...
“Danger Will Symbian, Danger...”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWtFeIw8MVM - baby phone
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html - OHA members
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rYozIZOgDk - Android
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/live-coverage-of-googles-android-gphone-mobile-os-announcement/ - transcript