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This is really really cool stuff what google presented today. They really did it, they made Java a first class citizen on the next generation handheld operating system. Look Steve, thats what developers want and thats why i really think that this platform will have far more 3rd party apps than the iPhone will ever have and more than symbian ever had. Now the question is, what is more important, the hardware (the phone itself, where the iPhone is quite nice) or the software/SDK (where iPhone just sucks). A good question, but one is clear, you have to deliver both in a good way.  By putting Linux in its recent 2.6 incarnation to the heart of the OS is another great move.

But one hint to google: Dont make the same mistakes as the vendors with their MIDP implementations. My experience with MIDP was so horrible in terms of runtime compatibility that this was the darkest time during my whole programming career. This VM together with the API must behave the same way  on each and every damn handheld we are going to see with Android on it.