Verizon errands Android for tablet apparatus
By Thursday morning the internet was abuzz with speculation that US carrier Verizon Wireless is collaborating with Google on the development of an iPad rival.
But this wasn’t some counterfeit chitchat kick started by a tech blog, these words came from the mouth of Verizon CEO, Lowell McAdam during an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Well, kind of. McAdam supposed that Verizon is working with Google on tablets, but more to see what Google has to offer that could actually lift the internet tablet experience.
The Apple iPad already has antagonism from Android-based gadgets of the same, or comparable, form factor – the Spring Design Alex to name but one. So the news that Verizon is looking at an Android-based tablet is hardly earth shocking. Principally in light of the emergence of the HTC Droid Incredible on the Verizon network last month.
What’s often forgotten is that Google and Android are two separate entities and it’s significant for the industry to distinguish them as such. At the instant much of the operator community’s fear (real or perceived) appears to stem from this idea that Google and Android are one and the same. Factual, Google owns Android the company, but Android the operating system is unconfined and chiefly developed by the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) – an alliance of 60 plus companies of which Google is only one. The Android OS in its entirety is released under the Apache open source licence, allowing anyone to take the code and mutate it without releasing the changes back to the community.
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