Rich Miner de Groupmanager for mobile platforms van Google deed vorige week een aantal opmerkelijke uitspraken, hier de drie belangrijkste:

• Once you have devices out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there’s a much larger potential market on Android than for the iPhone. Despite the runaway success of the, which sold 4 million units in its first seven months of release, there’s a single manufacturer, it’s targeted at a particular demographic, and it falls far short of the 1 billion mobile phones sold every year worldwide.
• Opening the iPhone platform to third-party apps, Apple earlier this month released the software development kit for the popular consumer device. Apple said this week that the SDK has already been downloaded more than 100,000 times. Last month at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona the Android SDK has been downloaded 750,000 times. That’s for a device that doesn’t even exist yet.
• Motorola, Samsung, HTC, and LG all belong to the Open Handset Alliance, which was formed last year by Google to promote open platforms and open networks in the mobile and wireless industry. All four are expected to release devices based on Android in the second half of this year. He expects one of the handset makers (most likely Taiwanese manufacturer HTC, according to industry reports) to reach the market before the other three.