GPhone

Google signs up 30 partners for mobile phone push: Financial News – Yahoo Finance

Google has announced their Gphone platform, “Android”. No, it isn’t a “phone” like the iphone. Actually, it is more like the anti-iphone. Where the iphone controls what software you can use on it, what programs to sync with, heck even which provider you use- the Gphone platform is open sourced. So they are hoping that all mobile providers will adapt it to use on their phones.

What is the big deal then? Well the hope is that with an industry wide standard operating system, programs can be more fluidly accessed across carriers and phones. So software for your Moto Q will work on my Treo and Your grandmother’s old candy bar. Even if you have Verizon, I have AT&T and grandma has T-mobile. Could opening up programming for mobile phones to look a lot like pc programming, so anyone with some programming knowledge could make a sleeper hit program and make millions (or more benevolently just be really useful)