Android vs. LiMo: What’s the difference?

[TechCrunch]

With LiMo’s recent announcement that Verizon had hopped onto their Board of Directors, things are starting to heat up between the LiMo platform and Google’s competing product, Android. Both are open-source Linux-based platforms, and both are aiming to rock the handset market sometime in the next year or so.

LiMo is Linux-based. Android is Linux-based. But they’re far from the same. Below, I’ll try to explain some of the key differences without going too heavy on the tech jargon. (Fiiine. It gets a bit heavy for a paragraph or two. But I’ll avoid it where possible.)

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[David]

More players might be what ruins this type of software, just as the Linux community has the same type of "too many distros" problem.

Perhaps corporate backing will do these well though. The consumer will likely win, otherwise just get an iPhone.

[Yahooligan]

I'm with you on the iPhone suggestion, David. I saw some videos of Android apps from students at MIT that looked interesting, but there something nice about the iPhone UI. Very simple and easy to use.