Probably one of the biggest product success stories in the last year is Apple's iPhone. Recently the Apple released the iPhone SDK which will allow for third-party applications to be run on the phone. The applications will be available through the AppStore application which will come with the new iPhone 2.0 firmware. The only problem is, is that Apple does not like competition and will be choosing the type of applications that it will distribute. So if a developer makes a program than one the iPhone currently has it will not pass.
Google however has decided to take a different route with its Android SDK. Android is Google's open source phone operating system that will be able to run on many devices and best of all anyone can write an application or operating system for it because like I said before it is completely open source. Users will be able to tweak the inner workings of their phone to allow more customization. This also creates a big problem for developers because they will have to tailor their code to work on many devices where as the iPhone applications only work with the iPhone.
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