The future of Android?

A lot has happened in the last few months if your lucky enough to have a newer android phone.

For individuals who have gotten an android 2.1 update you've seen improved speed, an improved market, and access to much more stable applications.

The beauty of android's future is that the improvements to the user experience are not predicated on obtaining the latest update. The unprecedented level of system access to developers means that innovation need not come solely from google. When innovation does need to come from google, they have figured out that replacing one app or system portion at a time is just as effective (if not more so) as dropping a new Operating System every six months.

As handset owners with other OS's rely on the Operating System creators or device manufacturers to deliver innovation, android is pushed mainly by the needs of its users. The shortcomings of any one particlar android device actually become an opportunity for developers to create an application directly adressing consumer needs.

For example, the recently released DoubleTwist application was developed and distributed in response to user request for an "Itunes-like" sync application. Though android possesses the file system or "drag and drop" functionality (which most would agree is much more open and simpler to use) there are those consumers who like to actively sync theyre media to a PC. Android allows users to have that choice along with countless others.

True consumer motivation and innovation make the future of android you the singular User. It is not the desires or moral positionings of one or even a few privaledged men.

Its good to know I'm necessarily playing a large part in my own experience.