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Google's Android operating system now powers more than 1/3 of all mobile phones sold having overtaken Apples' I-phone in sales rate.

This operating system and its impact on phones and other mobile devices is just beginning.  Somewhere deep in Google there is a master plan that brings together Chrome and Android working together on 'The Cloud'.

It is Google's intent to tear into Microsoft's PC dominance by being a one stop shopping company and offering online applications that replace the normal PC operations.  This will mean that you will have to be online all the time to do meaningful things and your apps will be running on some remote super-server someplace deep in Google's Server Farm Land.

Microsoft and Apple's reaction to Android and Chrome will be interesting to see.  Also, how will all the 3rd party software work in this environment?  So far there has been very little impact on traditional PC sales as System 7 does well in the marketplace.

It's difficult to see how average users steeped in their friendly laptop switching quickly to an new environment. When you help a friend do their first mail attachment, you begin to wonder about the speed at which things are moving.

In the mobile market Blackberry from Research in Motion has announced a new offering for next year that they hope will keep their huge market and loyal customers from switching off their platform.  We at the Saugeen/Kincardine Times get a lot of email from Blackberry readers so we know that they use them for more than old style phone operations.

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Friday, October 01, 2010