Anyone else find it amusing that this is just above an article talking about Facebook ditching HTML5 to go to ObjectiveC instead?

Organisations with a history of locking down their phones and leveraging that monopoly to forcefeed substandard applications down the throats of consumers who have little alternatives, now coming together to create a new monopoly. Oh, the ways in which this will never work:

- Handset fragmentation, without a common runtime, it's doomed. Even with a common runtime, Android is already having trouble.
- Bureaucratic nightmare or toxic dumping ground. There is a fine line between creating too process centric an environment (Apple) and too open an environment (possibly Google) in an app store. I'll place money that these guys will go for the former. I've read their specifications before.
- Hideously inoperable toolsets. Without decent SDKs any effort is doomed and none of these organisations have any credible history of producing a half decent toolchain
- Competing standards already with JIL and Bondi. Committee first design (tm) is always broken.
- J2ME is such a great example of how the mobile operators can take a good idea and turn it into something that you can just about write a suduko game with.

Apologies, I should have been clearer. 10 million homes are getting an NGA product, 75% of which should be fibre to the cabinet and 25% fibre to the premises. Fibre to the cabinet still isn't bad, though: 40 Mbs downstream with 20 Mbs of that 'guaranteed' and it should be practically uncontended (that I'll believe when I see it but so claim Openreach).

PC Pro is taking a number of fairly tenuous ideas and building a spaceship with them. Lets list them:

- Google announces that they're going to trial fibre in the _US_
- The Tories announce that they will support fibre roll out if they win
- There are rumours that the Torie fibre roll out could be supported by foreign investment
- BT has said they'll share their ducts
- Google and the Tories have close links

SHAZAM Google must be investing in UK fibre.

I work quite closely with Openreach. They're very keen to roll out fibre beyond the 10 million homes by 2012 and they're really set up to do it.

Sure, Google _could_ do it and may be considering it but either PC Pro is making this up or they know more than they're telling.

The variable sized / changing position of the virtual keyboard seems like a bad idea to me. I wonder how accurate the demo video is meant to be.