Schmidt a founder of Google? How's that?

2009 belong to android.
ISkoot Announces the First VoIP Application for Android G1
Was checking here for some updates:
http://techunits.com/content/list_all/100/android

You're new to The Inq, giving well known brands jokey names is the way it's done here.

If you read the banner title it says "The Inquirer, news, reviews, facts and friction".

A great new book on Android Application Development:
http://www.amazon.com/Android-Application-Development-Programming-Google/dp/0596521472/ref=innoblog-20

Until Chrome came along, Google's Master Mobile Plan didn't quite add up. Now it does. Chrome -- Google's new superbrowser -- is cream on the top of a new mobile software stack. Let's call it a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gacl" GACL /a , for Gears, Android and Chrome on Linux.

So what does Google exactly hope to achieve from a free platform?

If everyone is using Android, everyone will have to use GMail because it's the only non-borked email service. Previous comments on android 1.5 article.

P.S. People above, get with the program. Gurgle have made an open sauce operating system called paranoid android. Daym.

Paranoid Android? Gurgle?

Was this article altered by a white hat hacker with a sense of humor?

"So what does Google exactly hope to achieve from a free platform? There is certainly no licensing money in it for the search engine giant."

Oh that is simplicity itself, and most laudable ... virtual monopoly which cannot be challenged and/or bettered.

"Gurgle" ?

"So what does Google exactly hope to achieve from a free platform? There is certainly no licensing money in it for the search engine giant."

Your question can only be answered if you look at the open source development model, and the consequential effects it has.

You may want to consider reading: "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
= http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/