Google Phone Platform
According to the press release, the "Android platform will be made available under one of the most progressive, developer-friendly open-source licenses," and will be composed of a "fully integrated mobile 'software stack' that consists of an operating system, middleware, user-friendly interface and applications."
And apparently all applications are created equal
Android does not differentiate between the phone's core applications
and third-party applications. They can all be built to have equal
access to a phone's capabilities providing users with a broad spectrum
of applications and services. With devices built on the Android
Platform, users will be able to fully tailor the phone to their
interests. They can swap out the phone's homescreen, the style of the
dialer, or any of the applications. They can even instruct their phones
to use their favorite photo viewing application to handle the viewing
of all photos.
More info here
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