The situation around Android platform does not seem to be strange. It is not surprise for anyone, that any service with Google trademark behind it looks promissing, reliable and trusted. Of course, in case of Android, they want to own a part of a pie. They belong to seers of mobile age or even revolution in the nearest feature. But their approach differs from the most widespread in the market. In some sense, they were in advantageous position, starting the development of new OS when tons of problems were already solved by invadors of the area.The only disadvantage of launching such project from scratch in awesome team is lack of experience. So with all faults and compatibility issues (simulator vs. hardware, API revision X vs. revision Y), they designed huge amount of components and APIs in the way they do literally everything. Platform almost shines from the development perspective.
Inspite of grins from holders of proprietary OS with much more expirience in this area, Google decided to make Android open and free of charge for hardware vendors. And this brought the results quickly. While HTC and Motorola rules for now (with Hero and Droid), Samsung, LG and other players are also going to join.
All these things leads to the foundation of Android Initiative in bounds of Scientific Software Mobile. Primary activity in this direction is the development of iRemote client for Android platfrom.
