{"id":157,"date":"2008-10-16T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2008-10-17T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T15:37:44","slug":"google-androids-breaking-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/16\/google-androids-breaking-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Androids breaking Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since T-Mobile launched the first Google Android <\/a>based phone a few weeks ago I’ve read a few good pieces about the both the phone itself and the overall platform.\u00a0 I find it interesting that pretty much all the articles and blogs compare Android directly with the iPhone.\u00a0 From what I’ve seen it’s more an alternative to Microsoft’s Windows Mobile.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’m sure some of this is due to the current iPhone and Apple buzz, but I don’t think the WM comparison is something we can ignore.\u00a0 For one thing Android is a platform rather than a ‘product’.\u00a0 Where as the iPhone is a complete product – hardware, OS, applications and services, Android is very similar to\u00a0Windows Mobile in that its a platform you can adopt for your hardware or apps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u00a0strikes me that Android is\u00a0a lot like Chome in that I imagine its seen as\u00a0a vehicle for the delivery of Googles cloud services.\u00a0 Although I don’t think Google have really chased the Enterprise market in the past they seem to be building up this side of their business, putting in place the building blocks they will need to move in and squash MS.\u00a0 There’s a lot of money to be made in the enterprise email and office apps market and Google seem to be chasing that cash with a bit more vigor these days.<\/p>\n

Googles enterprise email offerings are very <\/em>competitive.\u00a0 On price alone they are hard to ignore.\u00a0 You loose some of the functionality you get with something like Exchange and Outlook, but especially in todays market, it does put\u00a0you in a place where you start wondering about whether the functionality is worth the\u00a0extra cost.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One gap in the email offering\u00a0seems to be\u00a0mobile services.\u00a0 Services like Blackberry and WM push mail are ubiquitous in business today and will be important for business adoption.\u00a0 Sure there’s a mobile GoogleMail site, and a client for Blackberry but having their own platform out there that can\u00a0do push mail, run the core Google apps and provide a platform for third party apps is a very attractive piece of the overall solution.<\/p>\n

The fact that few articles are comparing Andoid to WM really surprises me.\u00a0 And if I was a WM product manager I’d be both happy and worried about that.\u00a0 Happy because the market seems to be pitching Android against Apple.\u00a0 Worried because no one is talking about my product.<\/p>\n

Edit:\u00a0 I just spotted a great review<\/a> of the T-Mobile G1 and Android over on Engadget<\/a> that gives a good description of Androids integration with the Google cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since T-Mobile launched the first Google Android based phone a few weeks ago I’ve read a few good pieces about the both the phone itself and the overall platform.\u00a0 I find it interesting that pretty much all the articles and blogs compare Android directly with the iPhone.\u00a0 From what I’ve seen it’s more an alternative … <\/p>\n

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