Nortel's CTO gives us his thoughts, writing style.

John Roese, CTO of Nortel, has weighed on Android, in a lengthy post on his blog.

This is less a cohesive essay and more a rambling stream of thoughts. Mostly it's a cool splash of reality in the face of hype – Roese rightly points out that a multi-platform OS is nothing new, and although the promised openness of Android and the hope for tight integration with Google apps is enticing, the realities of economy might mitigate Android's paradigm-shifting potential.

He throws in a few near-unintelligible bits (“...just because a phone has an interface and operating system on it does not mean that the network it is connected to freely presents all the capabilities that that network can provide.” --what?), drops a few network-geek abbreviations, and caps it all off with a completely misleading title (“Android/G-Phone Software Development Kit - First Look.”)

It is, altogether, an interesting read. I guess.