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Rubin hoping for no dud, Reuters firm on September 23rd launch date for HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1

Andy Rubin (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNETNews.com)

According to an article published by Reuters today, Google’s Andy Rubin says that Android’s success hinges on the reception received by the first Android powered smartphone, which the story says is due out this month.
Andy Rubin, Google’s director of mobile platforms, told Reuters that Android’s success hinges on the reception [...]

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Google creating an iTunes-like Android software store?

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At the recent Google IO developer conference, Google’s Andy Rubin hinted that Google is looking to put together a way for developers to easily sell their applications to Android phone users in a way that is similar to what Apple has planned for iPhone apps on iTunes. To quote Andy Rubin:
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Google demos latest Android UI, possibly shows HTC Dream

Android presentation at Google IO

Yesterday at the Google IO developer conference, Andy Rubin and some other folks from Google ran a demo of the latest and greatest version of the Android platform running on a mysterious piece of hardware that could be the HTC Dream. The Google guys refused to name the device, citing [...]

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Google’s (semi-)open source plans for Android drawing criticism

Andy Rubin - Credit: Stephen Shankland, CNETNews.com

CNET has posted a lengthy look at how Google is dealing with the open source aspects of the Android platform, and how some open source advocates are less than pleased with Google’s actions so far. Google’s approach seems to be to develop everything in-house first, under controlled conditions, [...]

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