Google Goes On Disrupting: Last Week OpenSocial, This Week Open Phones @ OPEN WEB

Google Goes On Disrupting: Last Week OpenSocial, This Week Open Phones

In a move likely to be hailed as the final blow for the walled gardens favored till now by the wireless operators, Google is leveraging Linux and Java to open up the wireless handset market in the same way that it just launched OpenSocial to break open social networking and get beyond the walled garden approach of, for example, Facebook.

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Don Babcock commented on the 6 Nov 2007

It was only a matter of time. For years the telecomms have locked out developers with the requirement for proprietary code signing and other barriers to development on mobile devices. I'll gladly support the Google effort including subscribing to their service if only to show support for "breaking" the monopoly held by the telecoms. Mobile devices should be no different than PC's in terms of development. There's just too much potential that has been denied in the name of "security."

devvxn commented on the 5 Nov 2007

I am familiar with OpenMoko but the device base is still weak and it doesn't support windows mobile either. For true ubiquitous computing, you need all major OSs supported and a wider device range. These guys have a great vision though and definitely predate Google's announcement. But even before OpenMoko, Voyager which used to be an Objectspace product, has been going this route for years. From what I've seen it supports the widest range of OSs I have seen and is Java to .NET agnostic. But they still aren't on CLDC phones, so I'm going to hold off on a recommendation. But they have P-2-P and P-2-Group publish/ subscribe which I haven't seen from anyone else without proprietary hardware. recursionsw.com

an0n commented on the 5 Nov 2007

They could call it OpenMoko and then a lot of the work would have been done for them already - here's the link: [visit link]

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