via Scoopertino
Clearly, there’s no wrong way to run a company, unless you’re running it into the ground. Google and Apple have each built hugely successful businesses on polar opposite ideologies. And as long as everyone’s making money, at least in laissez-faire capitalism, is anyone really wrong?
Time will tell whether Google’s brand of “open” will yield long-term growth or whether Apple’s increasingly closed and dictatorial approach to consumer electronics will actually pave the way for better devices and features. But at least for today, Google is firing the shots with Froyo, and Apple cannot respond.
"This increase in processing power means that Android device makers like Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson or LG, can put Android 2.2 software on what the industry today considers feature phones – that is to say, affordable handsets that are not considered smartphones.
With Android 2.2 able to execute application code 450 percent faster, these device makers will be able to use cheaper, slower hardware and get phones into the market, which by all measures behave like smartphones.
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