Google has announced Android 2.2 update codenamed Froyo on the second day of Google I/O Conference at the Moscone West, San Francisco. With this update, Google has smartly put Apple in a soup. Android Froyo will run Flash and HTML5 platforms for both - native and web applications. That is a direct hit on the Apple-Adobe squabble that sparked over Adobe Flash platform for iPhone.Apple iPhone would be leaping directly to HTML5 for web apps. We don't know much about their future plans to make that platform available for native apps too. Android 2.2 Froyo runs Flash Player 10.1 smoothly and the overall system performance has been boosted up to 5 times compared to the previous update. While Apple simply mentions that its upcoming iPhone 4.0 update will bring an improved performance and faster interface.
Moving ahead, Android 2.2 Froyo loaded device is capable of wirelessly streaming non-DRM music from iTunes or any other music library. Apart from that, apps from desktop too can be transferred to mobile wirelessly.
The real kicker is Android's harmony with Flash and HTML5 in both native and web apps sense as that puts Apple's iPhone platform on the backseat. Developers would get an option to choose between Flash and HTML5 while Apple iPhone developers have to go ahead with HTML5 only. On should not forget that Apple has its own reasons for choosing HTML5 only.
Apple has kept the iPhone community buzzed with new multi-tasking features. Let us remind you that is device dependent and will work on most recent iPhone OS based models.
We already heard the buzz that the Android 3.0 'Gingerbread' update is on the anvil. Talks are that will support WebM, new open media file format. Now, there is an option for the users and developers to either join the Apple camp or the Google Camp.
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