OpenMobile is a new company on the application compatibility scene whose primary product, the Application Compatibility Layer, promises to bring Android's large volume of apps to smaller platforms.

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The application layer might be comparable in both cases, but the OSes are not.

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The real carrot is the managed services and software on top of a Cloud platform and application layer.

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