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barbaraballard commented on Going Mobile: Choosing target devices & platforms Android will be sitting directly on the device - like any other OS. It competes with Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm, and various versions of Linux. So on this map, it goes in the upper left quandrant. What the OS is developed in is pretty irrelevant to how to design applications within the OS. Sure it’s Java, and I expect it will have an efficient Java interpreter and rendering engine, which will be helpful. Best case is that Android devices will be as similar to Symbian devices (including UIQ, Series 60, and other flavors). I expect the reality to be not quite that good: companies like to differentiate and Google isn’t applying a lot of control over implementation. 2 years ago