1984 all over again?

Google recently announced that a bunch of companies (aka the Open Handset Alliance) were getting together to make cell phones that run on an open platform called Android. That was a couple of days ago so maybe someone else has already made the imperfect comparison between this and Mac vs. PC circa 1984, but if not:

Or perhaps Steven Frank has it right:

A 34-company committee couldn’t create a successful ham sandwich, much less a mobile application suite.

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