Sunday, November 4, 2007
Google Mobile Changes Paradigm
We'll know the details soon enough, but the outlines of Google's assault on the mobile business are clear enough already. Apple deserves credit for chipping away in a significant way at the closed model traditionally employed by mobile service providers. Google appears poised to transform the model altogether. In bringing an open platform and ecosystem to the mass markets for the first time, it might be fair to say that what Google is attempting is the creation of an Internet model for the mobile business.
That is to say, as any device and application can be used on the Interent, so Google proposes to allow any application or device to be built on its open model, and used as a mobile computing device. In that sense, Google is attempting to create a new mobile PC business more than take share in a mobile phone business.
Give credit to Apple for opening the door. Watch for Google to blow the door down.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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Cool!
Max
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