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Google CEO defends mobile strategy, touts Flash support
BARCELONA, Spain--Touting a mobile future dependent on the convergence among traditional computing, connectivity and cloud computing, Google CEO Eric Schmidt also vehemently denied the company plans to reduce operators to little more than "dumb pipes." The executive's comments came during a far-ranging and engaging keynote appearance here at Mobile World Congress. Schmidt was quick to shoot down an audience member's assertion that Google's mobile vision does not make sufficient room for its network operator partners: "We feel very strongly that we depend on the successful business of operators globally," he said. "We need advanced, sophisticated networks."
Schmidt took the Barcelona stage following an amusing, self-deprecating video produced by Google for the Mobile World Congress crowd. In the hour that followed, he outlined an evolving mobile ecosystem heralded by growing smartphone penetration and accelerating mobile Web adoption--according to Schmidt, more than 60,000 Google Android-based devices now ship each day worldwide, double the number just a quarter earlier. Continued growth depends on the cloud, Schmidt said.
"Applications are sharing-intensive, and the cloud is all about sharing and replication," Schmidt explained. "An application that does not leverage the power of the cloud is not going to wow anybody."
In related news, Google announced Tuesday that Android will offer full support for Adobe Systems' Flash 10.1 runtime. Palm also vowed to support Flash 10.1 on its webOS platform, and said Flash would be made available to its Pre and Pre Plus devices sometime this month.
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Posted by Barry Dennis | February 16, 2010 - 3:19pm
Whatever Mr. Schmidt says, Google's motivation is a platform,a Pipeline big enough to handle Google's version of the "always-on," fully converged marketplace. (AAA-AnyThing, AnyTime,AnyWhere).
His recent offer to experiment with a 1 Gig pipeline is partly to demonstrate the capability, partly to prove the need that Convergence will bring; by proving the "do-ability" he forces Cable and Telco to step up, separate Content, or find the Google's and Yahoo's and MSN's "eating their breakfast, lunch AND dinner."
Now if the FCC and FTC would do their jobs and force separation of Content and the delivery Broadband Pipeline infrastructure, we could start to see benefits, and importantly, catch up (we're 13-15th), even take the lead, in the World's Internet "Race TO The Top."
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