So, both the iPhone and the Android platforms have SDKs (The iPhone SDK is announced and the Android hardware is announced). However, it came to me that there are different motivations for making each SDK available.
- Apple: Create an SDK for the iPhone to stop the demands for an SDK for the iPhone. If it does not work out, we can make it open source and scrap it.
- Google: Get people to write apps for our phone
- Apple: If the Android SDK works out we're sure someone will implement an open source one
- Google: If the iPhone SDK does better than ours there's nothing we can do about it without completely writing Mac OS X.
So, Apple's in a better position than Google in this regard, because they can turn the iPhone into an android handset, but all the Androids can't run Mac OS X (kind of like macs can run Windows but PCs can't run the Mac OS).
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1 comment:
I'm thinking no. The iPhone is a platform, not just an OS and Phone. Android is just an OS for phones.
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