Android Today, Total Upheaval in Cell Phones Tomorrow
posted by admin in Home Health ServicesToday's operating
system has a lot of people very excited — but not because it's
Google or it's a new cell phone operating system. I mean, most people
don't care or don't even want to know what OS runs their phone.
Actually,
Android and Apple's iPhone are early signs of a revolution.
Until now,
most people have chosen their cell phones based mostly on hardware –
what the phone looks like, its size, its functionality. All that is
changing. People will buy phones based not on what they are, but on
what they can do on the network.
As the iPhone App Store so glaringly
proves, the more phones open up to developers, the more that allows
users to do anything they want with their phones — much as we now do
with our laptop computers.
The long-standing
closed, limited, proprietary cell phone systems operated by Verizon
Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint are the walking dead — exactly
the position the old, closed-off AOL found itself in when the open
Internet took off in the late-1990s.
People want to have a big, open
ecosystem that spurs invention and competition and odd little niches,
much like the Internet itself. Ultimately, the wireless industry is
heading there. In less than five years, pretty much all cell phones
will be open systems that can download software off the Web and access
anything on the Web.
You want to buy music for your phone? You can get
it from any entity that sells it on the Internet. Want to turn your
phone into a guitar tuner? Download any software from any maker that
offers it.
Google wants Android to push the industry in that direction, and T-Mobile's phone will be a first step.
By Kevin Maney, for
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