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        <title><![CDATA[Google: Not tied to platform]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The title says it all.Google's services have never been linked to specific hardware.In fact, there are iPhone and iPad ports for Android to be installed on those dedicated platforms. So the possibility exists at least, regardless of what Apple has to say about it.Google's approach is why, in the long run, it is more likely to succeed in the corporate place as it has with the consumer smartphone market already. Diversity wins out over the paternalistic, closed approach.As for Apple's &quot;increasing influence over the consumer market&quot;, that holds true only for the tablet sector, and even that isn't a given, once one actually looks at the market trends instead of the marketing spiel.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stalemate]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:24:29 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Straddling the fence? Probably not.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Apple obviously feels like Google stole the basics behind the iPhone away from them and it certainly seems obvious from the way Android was announced by Google so soon afterwards and then Google's member of Apple's Board of Directors left that board. Whether or not iOS and Android are different, the emergence of a mobile Android OS coming so quickly after the mobile OS X is a coincidence too obvious to ignore. Apple's--or rather, Steve Jobs'--anti-Android war simply won't allow Google to play in the same ball park any longer than necessary. Now we'll just have to see what Apple does post-Jobs.Meanwhile, I really can't see Google just sitting aside and letting Android fade away. We've already seen some moves that imply Google's intent to rein in control of Android and at least bring it to a capability similar to Windows, where the OEMs continue to manufacture hardware but no longer can extensively modify the user interface. What we don't know is how well Google will manage its efforts in taking back control from the OEMs and carriers themselves.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:21:00 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Straddle the fence?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can Google continue to straddle the fence on iPads versus every other tablet? Do you think that eventually Google will have to move away from the Apple platform? Will Apple give them a choice?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark W. Kaelin]]></dc:creator>
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