Of all the companies that want to grab smartphone fragments and fight on the brightest planet in computing, Google is the least interested in getting its trophies.
Google's mobile operating system, Android, has not generated sales for the company, at least in a direct sense, and probably never will. However, Andy Rubin, Google's head of mobile platforms, believes that Google and the world will benefit from all devices designed to increase the number of people using the Internet. Moreover, he did not hesitate to explain why the open source approach chosen for Android is most likely to achieve this goal.
Android appeared in 2007. That was a few months after the launch of another computer, the iPhone, which aims to improve the Internet experience on the phone. The IPhone is probably the most eye-catching gadget ever. Android has been a topic of conversation more slowly than iPhone. But that may also start to change with the advent of new phones. These new phones look better than the world's first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, launched in October 2008.
Rubin will talk to future Android phones about the software's goals at Google Iamp O Developer Conference this week. Before that, he told CNET News about Google's previous progress and his idea of using Android as his own existence.
Mr. Rubin: from the past, mobile phone manufacturers have assumed the responsibility of being system integrators. The software is actually developed by multiple stakeholders, because no one seriously considers the overall user experience, so users are like the "lowest common denominator" of functionality and usability.
What matters is how these products are expected to work and how long consumers will use them. No company has considered this.
Another advantage of this open platform is that it is complete and basically everything you need to develop a phone. Things sometimes get fragmented because the platform is incomplete and people need to fill in those pieces. Then when you fill the fragment, it is bound to be incompatible.
A completely different user interface with a completely different look and feel can be compatible. We'll prove it in the future.
There are a few things to be published, and we have attracted a lot of attention in China. The method of use in China is slightly different from that in the United States. Generally speaking, in China, pen-based interfaces are more popular than electrostatic touch-based interfaces because of Asian language input. This is because it is expected to write complex letters with a stylus. This way of use is completely changed, but the compatibility remains the same.