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Telecommunications NTT DoCoMo - Google partnership could create a 50m user market for Android: just for starters
Telecommunications NTT DoCoMo - Google partnership could create a 50m user market for Android: just for starters | NTT DoCoMo - Google partnership could create a 50m user market for Android: just for starters |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 25 January 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 Access will look at converging NTT DoCoMo's existing Linux platform, MOAP(L) (Mobile Oriented Application Platform based on Linux) with ALP and will lead the development of a shared software platform that will conform to specifications of the LiMo Foundation, an independent, non-profit foundation established with the aim of promoting the use of Linux by the mobile industry. Access intends to begin marketing the commercial products resulting from these efforts during fiscal 2009. Ovum identified a major barrier to this plan as being the fragmented state of the Linux mobile phone software market with a number of hopefuls jostling for global acceptance. And even at that time Ovum observed that NTT DoCoMo was hedging its bets by being active in both LiMo, as a founder member, and joining the Open Handset Alliance which is backing Android. Cleary Google can bring many more goodies to the table when it comes seeking support for Android from a major carrier. NTT is a prime target because of the size of the i-mode user base which creates the opportunity to exploit synergies with Google's existing service and because it is perhaps the most technologically skilled cellular operator in the world with its own very extensive R&D facilities. But don't expect Google to stop in Japan as it moves to gain global acceptance for Android. Expect to see more tie ups like this one.
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