Matt Buchanan at Gizmodo gives us the announce that android -Google quite new os system for portable devices – can be used, also, for doing really awesome thing such as monitoring power consumption through Flickr (full article at http://gizmodo.com/5273032/android-meets-energy-shows-why-android-will-be-powering-way-more-than-just-phones).

Of course the news is good, intersting and shows us the potential of skilled people, available and free technology, and a little bit of foolness.

What makes me think is the convergenge we are all having to “Googlish” applications and services.

Google has been and is a great frontier for liberalization of internet, as opposed to proprietary software. And, on the other side, business model is great (and that made the company so rich).

But, in the mean time more and more people, including me, use a lot more Google applications, maybe switching from Microsoft ones.

But this, in my opinion is centering a big part of our lives (digitally and non digitally speaking) from “old” proprietary software paradigm to something different in words, but somehoh similar in some facts.

And a little bit riskier, because of  data decentralization (due to webbization of apllications).

Could Google be the New Microsoft in term of centrality on the net and in real lives?

This comment also as a comment at http://gizmodo.com/5273032/android-meets-energy-shows-why-android-will-be-powering-way-more-than-just-phones