Android, part 2

This article, Google and Cellphones: Let Freedom Ring, by Rob Pegoraro, begins well, but finally fizzles.

"Google might save the cellphone from its miserable self. In a year. If wireless carriers stop acting like, well, wireless carriers."

Unlike salespeople everywhere, the writer forgets the distinction between features and benefits; or, perhaps, he confuses the difference between the middleware programmers and the purchasers/users of cellphones, us.

No matter, as the article still offers several interesting points. Worth your time, if interested in the topic.

Full Disclosure: Long the shares of Google/GOOG
-- David M Gordon / The Deipnosophist