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Dear mobile developers,
I know you are really excited about the iPhone SDK.  It is a lot of fun and the idea of bringing home 70% of your labor is appealing.  But don’t forget about Android.  Please.  Android is going to be huge, huge I tell you.  We’ll be doing so many fun things with Android phones you won’t believe it.  Advanced functions like cut&paste or MMS.  It is going to be huge.  Please think about us, cause we think about you, like every day.  Sometimes we’ll pick up flowers and ask it if you love us.  Sometimes the answer is no.

love,
Rich Miner,
Google group manager for mobile platforms

The above was a dramatization of Rich Miner’s comments as reported by Information Week.  Miner was speaking at the Emerging Communications Conference. Miner went on to make some comments regarding sales and wanted to get in on some iPhone name dropping.

Google’s play is all about advertising.  To make a good go at advertising, you have to have a large audience.  That does not mean a $400 phone.  That means a free phone.  There won’t be competition.  Free will beat $400 every single time, not much of a revelation here Mr. Miner.

But Miner continues on his iPhone comparison...citing the Android SDK has been downloaded 750,000 times. “That’s for a device that doesn’t even exist yet,” an excited Miner added.

“It’s not a competitive thing—it’s great that people are finally building tools so all of these third-party applications can be built and get out there,” Miner said. “[If I were a developer] I’d certainly be looking at the iPhone, and if you believe there will be lots of Android phones out there, as we do, I’d be developing for both platforms.”

I am excited about Android, but lets see some fruit before we order the main course huh?

Read [Information Week] via [Yahoo!]

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