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Android
It is amazing to me that everyone doesn’t yet have a smartphone running Android.
Doesn’t everyone want an open, Internet-enabled computer in their pocket that is
as good as a laptop from a couple of years ago? The reality is that the costs are still a bit
high for everyone to switch today, especially with carrier costs and contracts, but that
is changing really quickly. My Google Nexus One phone has no trouble playing music
through Bluetooth over my car stereo, interrupting to read street names and display a
map from Google Maps. I should note that driving directions that prompt you, just like
a real navigation system, are free on the new Android phones. Get your car dock ready
and you will have an amazing experience with updated traffic and even a photo from
Street View of your destination. I can’t even count all the partners we have in our
Open Handset Alliance (sounds like Star Wars, doesn’t it?)—turns out there are now 65.
We have over 20,000 applications in our market, my favorite is an app called FaceIt
that displays a Dracula face you can put in front of your mouth that moves when you
talk. Android is another product only in its baby stage, and yet we have already seen
significant uptake. These types of projects take a lot of foresight to develop. We
acquired Android in 2005, so it spent quite a while in gestation before launching.
We also have over 60 carriers in 49 countries and 19 languages. Android has changed
my life and I can’t wait for what it does next.