Yahoo Go Opens Up To Thwart Google’s Android

Yahoo has announced at CES that its Yahoo Go platform will now allow independent software developers to design their own applications to run inside the platform. A software development kit is expected to be released within the next few weeks, and eBay, MySpace and MTV have already created their own Yahoo Go apps.
Yahoo Go is Yahoo’s all-inclusive mobile platform, designed to run on a variety of operating systems and phone types and allow access to all of Yahoo’s services. Anyone with a compatible phone can download and install it, but the real push by Yahoo is to get device makers and mobile service providers to pre-install it. With the new open application capabilities, Yahoo doesn’t just have its own application, but a platform to extend the features of mobile devices, a change which may make it very appealing to device makers.
The appeal of Google’s Android is that […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg