Android

Google's Android platform looks like an innovative and strategically viable way for them to make serious inroads in the mobile phone market. Essentially, it's Google Linux for phones, with a heavy emphasis on open technologies and third party developer support. In many ways, it's the anti-iPhone: a wide-open software platform with no integrated hardware at all.

For Google, going this route makes a lot of sense, and I think it's going to be a good thing for the industry- and a really bad thing for Microsoft. Android is going to hurt Windows Mobile a lot more directly than it will the iPhone. Sounds good to me.

But check out this video, featuring one of the world's richest men. No offense to Google or Android- but compared to Apple's iPhone demos, this comes across like a Saturday Night Live parody: