Re: IST finally has an iPhone!

In the message "Re: [MAGNet] IST finally has an iPhone!", dated
2007-11-05, Jay Bryon wrote:

>And even more good news, Apple finally caved and is eventually
>rolling out an SDK for the iPhone next spring.
>
>http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2007/10/iphone_sdk

   Just today, Google and a gaggle of leading wireless telecom service
vendors, phone manufacturers, and software firms, including T-Mobile,
Verizon, Motorola, Qualcomm, and HTC (a major manufacturer and
outsourcer of Windows Mobile handsets), announced a competing mobile
device platform, presumably one that will go head-to-head with
Apple's iPhone:

   Open Handset Alliance
   http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/

>Welcome to the Open Handset Alliance(TM), a group of more than 30
>technology and mobile companies who have come together to accelerate
>innovation in mobile and offer consumers a richer, less expensive,
>and better mobile experience. Together we have developed
>Android(TM), the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.
>
>We are committed to commercially deploy handsets and services using
>the Android Platform in the second half of 2008. An early look at
>the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) will be available on
>November 12th [2007].

   One analysis of the coming "OHA versus Apple" war:

   Marc Hedlund
   "What does Google's Open Handset Alliance announcement tell us
   about iPhone third-party apps?"
   http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/what_does_googl.html

Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology

P.S. Google's been busy in recent months building and leading
consortia around development platforms. Another major Google
announcement, just four days ago, concerned OpenSocial, an effort to
create a core set of APIs that work across multiple social networks:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/opensocial.html

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Received on Mon Nov 05 2007 - 14:44:26 PST