Google's Android (iPhone Killer?) Hits Stores Oct. 22

Insofar as I can tell, there are at least two reasons to love the new Google phone.

1. The cost.

"The data plan for the phone will cost $25 per month on top of the calling service, at the low end of the range for data plans at U.S. wireless carriers. And at $179, the G1 is $20 less than the least expensive iPhone in the U.S."

2. The freedom to innovate on your own terms

"Google is giving away Android, the software that underlies the G1, for free, and opening the operating system to third-party developers who can create their own programs. Google hopes that in turn, mobile phones will provide even more ways for people to interact with the company's advertising network."

If you aren't completely excited yet or convinced that Google will destroy Apple's market share, watch this video from Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior VP for Product Management and Marketing at Google. Apologies for the length, but it is well worth it!

For the record, I bought an iPhone early this year, and I absolutely love it. This whole situation smells a lot like PC vs Mac in the 1980s. I think Apple learned the lesson about supporting 3rd party developers as the path to standardization dominance. We'll see.

Comments

[tim]

Google hopes that in turn, mobile phones will provide even more ways for people to interact with the company's advertising network."

That's the whole deal isn't it? Google is an "advertising" company with no track record outside of advertising. I'm not exciting by some companies pitch (including apples - haven't seen a jobs introduction in years). I get excited by real shipping products. And I don't understand the idealist notions that Google will somehow save the world from the evil Apple or the evil Microsoft. Google is a for profit company that has to deliver results to their shareholders as well.

[Phillip]

"I think Apple learned the lesson about supporting 3rd party developers as the path to standardization dominance. We'll see."

No, they didn't. Not with the iPhone. The iPhone SDK still has a NDA attached: No books, no information flow between developers. That is stifling innovation, or at least the best possible apps for consumers (we want bug-free applications on something like a cell phone).

Just look at what Google turns up:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=iPhone+NDA&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

Or Yahoo:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu5mmpuFIXR0Bws2l87UF?p=iPhone+NDA&ei=UTF-8&iscqry=&fr=sfp

Apple even attached an NDA to application rejection letters, instead of explaining themselves why they reject applications from inclusion in their stores.

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