The latest rumor buzzing around the Internet was Google's so-called "Gphone"--that Google was developing its own phone to compete with Apple's iPhone. Well, today Google announced that they aren't designing their own phone: they're designing an operating system, applications, and a platform for many other companies to use to design their phones. Here's the announcement from Google. This has the potential to change to mobile phone industry, making it cheaper for companies and ultimately, consumers, as well as providing an opportunity for any high school tech wiz to write software for a phone!
Now that anyone will be able to write software for phones in this alliance, people are free to dream bigger dreams! Here's a cute video Google made asking kids what their magic phone would do:
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