Google executives have said they're looking for applications that make good use of some of Android's unique capabilities, including location-based services, accelerometers that can sense motion and direction, and always-on social networking.
What's most interesting to us is that the carriers are appearing to conflate bandwidth-heavy services like Facebook and YouTube with devices that customers use to access those services -- does it really make any sense to charge Apple or Google a fee for making good phones that encourage more network use, on top of charging users for tiered data?