11.08.07
Androids and Symbians in your cell phone
The dictionary defines Android as a robot with a human appearance. Isn’t it just the old word for Googlelite? And therefore very suitable for Google’s phone operating system development platform? So the much rumored “gphone” was just that - a rumor. But wait, the trademark filing is for hardware and software. And it seems like even their lawyers operate in the very minimalist interface world that has been Google’s signature all along. I doubt I have ever seen any other lawyer file a trademark application in category 9 and simple declare the description as “hardware, software”. This will be fun to watch as it progresses through the USPTO.. but for now.. Google’s lawyers win a 3 trophy award for simplicity. They obviously didn’t come from Intel where the Pentium trademark filing scrolls on for pages and pages of unintelligible fine print. You’d think they were defining each piece of a rocket ship!
As a lovely sideline to the Android story, many more people are discovering that for years they have been using phones with software based on the Symbian platform… a name that yours truly came up with about 8 years ago. There are millions and millions out there.. and finally my name sees the light of day. I had a fascination with the word symbiosis from when I first learned what it meant.. and finally found a great use for it in a naming project where we had NEC, Nokia and Motorola for a client.. simultaneously.
Antonio White said,
November 9, 2007 at 10:13 am
Hello,
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Fitzy said,
February 22, 2008 at 4:34 am
Symbiosis! I loved that word from the first time I heard it as well
Great Blog