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Cornered! Android's adversaries analysed - or are they?
Cornered! Android's adversaries analysed - or are they? | Android's adversaries analysed - or are they? |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 03 January 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 That same month the Open Mobile Alliance (www.openmobilealliance.org) and the LiPS Forum formed an alliance to increase interoperability among Linux-based phones, and between Linux- and non-Linux based phones and devices. Then in December 2007 the LiMo Foundation announced that it had chosen Wind River Systems' commercial Linux technology as the foundation for its Common Integration Environment (CIE). And most recently Access Co Ltd, a Japanese global provider of software technologies to mobile markets, signed an MoU with NTT DoCoMo, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Esteemo under which Access will look at converging NTT DoCoMo's existing Linux platform, MOAP(L) (Mobile Oriented Application Platform based on Linux) with the Access Linux Platform (ALP) as the basis for developing a shared Linux platform for mobile phones that will conform to specifications of the LiMo Foundation. The product is aimed at global markets. In other words the Linux mobile ecosystem is rich, complex and populated by powerful tribes in varying degrees of collaboration and competition. Into this has stepped the Google-spawned Open Handset Alliance and Android, an event which I suggest has garnered more publicity than all the other initiatives I have mentioned, combined, thanks solely to Google. Whether the Mobile Commerce Lab/MindCommerce report covers this in any depth I cannot say for certain, but the promotional material gives no indication that it does. Yet it claims to "identify five fundamental challenges which threaten Google's mobile dreams and establishes four required milestones for the Open Handset Alliance to achieve in order to effectively compete within the global mobile industry."{moscomment}
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