Over the last several weeks, Google has been announcing snippets of information related to their mobile phone endevor: Android.
Google announced today it will also be releasing a Android Market, a service designed in the image of the iTunes Store with YouTube functionality. An interesting market shift is taking place which could quite possibly be looked in hindsight as the great mobile revolution. First, it was the laptop, coming up next the mobile phone that acts like a laptop?
Mobile developers have been going nuts over development of iPhone applications and they have been making a mint doing so. Some reports have the Store making $1M per day. Wow. Google joins the fray today in their announcement albeit with a slightly more open source bend. They will at first accept only free applications with the paid-for apps coming at a later date.
Expanding the development of mobile apps from a few scattered developers, say, on Research In Motion’s Blackberry devices to many many developers all over the world on Android and the iPhone are setting up a potential for a Brave New World of mobile phone functionality.