But they illustrate the vulnerability of Google's new platform, and raise the question of who's responsible for OpenSocial's security: application developers, social networking sites or Google itself?

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There is no evidence that Google plans to host or even make a phone itself.

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Not least, Google by itself probably will never be the hardware powerhouse that Apple or even Microsoft is.

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