Empowering Mobile Users - Put the real power in their hands!

Mark my words-Winners in the mobile space will be "open".
Trust me-it's all about empowering the user and third party developers to provide next-gen mobile applications and services.

Forget dictating and guessing how users can use their cell phones. They will soon show all of us if I have a say in this-AND I DO! You will here more about this later.

Hello Moto -MotoMagx - Linux Platform.

There is some life being pumped back into Motorola. Several weeks ago at Linuxworld hey introduced a next-generation mobile Linux platform dubbed MotoMagx.

Motorola has really struggled to innovate with their internal teams. They get tunnel vision. To provide the innovative blood -they will need to let developers and 3rd party partners create useful tools for their handsets. Consumers will demand it-cute colors and ringtones don'thack it anymore. We want functionality, flexibility and power to design our lives with our cell phones.

Motorola's goal -per reports- is to provide "new levels of openness, flexibility and support for third-party applications on Motorola mobile devices."

YEA is all I have to say. My firm position on openess is well known. You can't stay competitve throttling or trying to control development for applications and content on devices or services in the long run. Apple and Verizon come to Mind. Trust me-consumers will force them to be open once they get a taste of freedom and choice from other devices and services. This has happened in every major tech sector...its just a matter of time.
The iPhone was just hacked to make it open for use on other carriers.

Motorola plans to implement mobile Linux across 60 percent of its handset devices. Motorokr Z6 and the Motorola RAZR2 V8 are first to get "opened-up" These are music centric and for the US look for the Motorola RAZR2 V8 model.

Motorola is not dropping their Java ME platform. They are just adding Linux to the mix. Think of them diversifying their odds.

MotoMagx supports only applications developed in Java. But a new
Web UI and Linux application environments will be introduced in
future releases.

Winners in the game will adopt the business and development models that empower users -the person who bought the device. Take that to the bank!