What ever happened to the Open Handset Alliance?
What ever happened to the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)? Some of you are probably scratching your heads wondering that the OHA is to being with, and that's not so surprising. What you might be shocked to know is that, officially, the OHA is the organization that guides the development of the Android operating system. You can be excused for thinking Android was a product of Google. The OHA hasn't even bothered to update their own web site since 2011. The last phone manufacturer to join the OHA did so in 2009 (Acer). Even when a major breach of the OHA partnership emerged in 2012 (the launch of a phone by OHA member Acer running an 'incompatible' version of Android) it was Google itself which responded, not the OHA. Interestingly, in Google's response, it does mention the OHA and the responsibilities of its members. So what happened? The Mobile World in 2007-2008 Back in 2007 when the OHA was launched, we were living in a very different mobile world. The most popular phones, by a far margin, were made by Nokia (and were 'candybar' shaped). On January 9th, 2007, Steve Jobs got up on the stage in the Moscone Center in…