Last week I wrote (“Death to Google?”) about an article that addressed how mobile phone applications, and iPhone apps in particular, were usurping Google’s share of internet user’s access to various streams of information. Another school of thought however reasons that Google’s dual operating system approach, via Google Android and Google Chrome, will actually help Google trounce Apple, which maintains a closed source system, just as Microsoft operating systems, installed on PCs, trounced Apple 20+ years ago.
The Android operating system is meant for mobile devices, while the Chrome browser OS will power a next generation of net books and iPad/Kindle like devices. Google fully intends to eventually merge these operating systems, but the real key differentiator between Google and Apple is that Google’s operating systems are open source, meaning that the Android, Chrome, or merged operating system can be integrated into an array of devices made by many device manufacturers. This is highly reminiscent of Apple’s move to maintain its own operating system many years ago, and which in turn deemed Apple computers (e.g., Mcintosh) a computer that couldn’t be used in serious environments where files needed to be shared (e.g., excel, word), etc.
The original article can be found at: www.Internet.com
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