published on May 22, 2011 3: 20 PM 
Android, as Andy Rubin (no relation) has pointed out on several occasions, playing a numbers game. And at Google I/O, the company of their shared development some large: 100 million enabled devices with 400,000 is added every day. However, as in many games, different players may reach or exceed each other at different points. Just ask Nokia and RIM. To stay on top, operating system vendors implement strategies to lock users in. Consumers from more money sink in iPhone apps, for example, the incentive would have to be with that platform; the same is true for accessories that use the dock connector of 30-pin Apple that has existed since the third generation iPod.Android have become the OS main vendor of smartphone that grants licenses to your operating system with the notable exception of Nokia (who almost did), Google demonstrated that it is intended to not only move Android in other devices with sufficient computing power as tablets andeach once again, TV sets, but now has his sights set on almost everything that you can not run Android feed directly on it. Google is taking two approaches: one for the things that connect Android devices and other things that do not.
The accessory Android open platform aims to match, if they should not override the wide range of accessories that have emerged around 30-pin Apple that began as a simple way to provide a load and audio. On the one hand, unlike Apple, Google is building its accessory platform in the almost ubiquitous USB connector. Perhaps more importantly, without any special connector to license, is not charging to companies for use of the protocols of accessories. This should omen to add Android support to peripherals to the traditional to the emerging as several monitors health and exercise bike at Google I/O. On the other hand, the wide variation of where is placed the connector can do difficult things for peripherals that depend on a physical device positioning as a speaker and car. (There have been problems with 30-pin products also as Apple has changed the size, power criteria and authentication over the years.)
Meeting these challenges, however, is child's play compared to Android@Home, seeking to capture one of the most elusive challenges in consumer technology: the adoption of home automation. Through a new standard of illumination of low power consumption, developed by Google, radio can be embedded within bulbs themselves without adding significant costs, potentially avoiding the need for electricians install them in wall switches. Philips Semiconductors demonstrated also outside such a small radio. While this represents a milestone towards the adoption of consumer, cost, complexity, low awareness and standards of home automation market notoriously fractured they have defended among technology cool and save money and massive adoption. Now what's more, while we have heard talk of utilities energy offers automation based on Zigbee in homes through smart meters for years, they seem to be the interest of other suppliers of services, with Verizon announcing that used standard rival Z-ola of intelligent energy and home automation service. ADT and Vivint security services providers also support Z-Wave.
While the accessory Android open platform is a natural extension, Android@Home is Google in territory where there has been no successful standard model and any model pioneer as the iPhone to reset expectations. Bring home automation to the masses will require an ecosystem at least as strong as the around of Android own development.
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