Popular Steve Jobs satirist FakeSteve posted a nice piece on the percieved threat of the Google Open Handset Alliance on Apple and its iPhone franchise. Google's stock is up and all of the alliance members are getting plenty of publicity. But in the end what have we really got?
No devices for a year (!!) which is forever in technology terms. The 6 months wait for the iPhone was eternity.
An SDK - which is based on Linux. Let's reserve judgment until next week. No news yet.
Device manufacturers like HTC will build the equipment - but in hardware terms since it is an open platform - technically, they already build the same hardware. Its like Dell saying we are
