AOL Announces Its Open Mobile Platform

AOL does a Google and joins the mobile development fray. Similar to the Android, the AOL Open Mobile Platform is going to provide developers with tools and source code to help them create their own applications. Excerpts from the press release:

The new open platform will help stimulate innovation by providing developers with ready access to the tools and source code they need to build and distribute applications across all major mobile device platforms and operating systems including BREW, Java, Linux, RIM, Symbian, and Windows Mobile.

The platform will consist of three components: an XML-based, next-generation markup language; an ultra-lightweight mobile device client; and an application server. A dynamic presentation layer will allow for rapid deployment of new features and easy optimization for a wide variety of mobile devices, allowing developers to build and update applications once, and then distribute them across all supported devices and platforms.

Availability of the said platform is scheduled for this summer. The only difference here is that AOL isn't offering a contest for early adopters. Well, not yet anyway. It also makes me wonder who else will join the open mobile platform development bandwagon

Source: Press Release

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