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\"\"<\/a>First off, forget the phone<\/a>. The big news out of Google today wasn’t the shiny new Nexus One, but the web store that the company created<\/a> as a way to get a certain class of Android devices it calls superphones into consumer’s hands and regain some control over its open-source OS. That’s right, the phone may be sweet, but the business disruption today came from the channel.<\/p>\n

With its web store Google<\/a> is trying to create a top tier of Android devices<\/a> and a way for it to control the user experience for the operating system — currently a challenge for the OS, especially when it’s compared with the buttoned-down iPhone ecosystem<\/a>. If Google sets the bar high enough for a phone to be listed in its web store, the consumer knows that handset meets a certain level of quality.<\/p>\n

That will help deal with the complaints about apps not working correctly on the device because the Android platform is too advanced for older hardware, and other issues that are keeping Android gadgets behind the iPhone in the user experience category. Andy Rubin, VP of engineering at Google, today at an Android press event defended the difficulties with the older hardware, saying that backwards compatibility between the hardware and software for mobile phones would stall innovation.<\/p>\n

He kept repeating that the Nexus One is like his laptop from four or five years ago, a machine that wouldn’t run today’s version of Windows, he pointed out. Maybe, but the initial Android phone was released only a year and three months ago.<\/p>\n