Hulu Going Mobile And Might Hit Android And iPhone OS

on 01/29/2010 16:59 PDT

Hulu addicts out there will certainly be happy at the latest statements from Hulu chief, Jason Kilar. He mentioned that the company would be making a push into the mobile scene, which could include key platforms. When asked about supporting the iPad, he stressed that the TV streaming service will embrace any device, and wouldn’t lock itself into supporting any one platform. That’s certainly good news, as it gives all the popular platforms such as Android, Symbian, webOS, Windows Mobile and iPhone OS a lot of hope, though there is always the question of how he’s going to get flash on the iPhone, but that’s another story altogether. Kilar added that Hulu expects mobile to be complimentary to the desktop, rather than detrimental, and we certainly hope so. If you could access Hulu on your mobile phone, would your daily ride on public transport be more bearable?

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Android Android is mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license.

Google Google is an Internet Search company with profits mainly derived from its AdWords advertising program. Google is also known for other high-profile web-related products such as Chrome, GMail, Google Docs or Google Map, and it has also made a very successful entry into the mobile handset market with its Android mobile operating system. The company was created in 1998 and went public in 2004. Google is one of the most visited site in the world.

iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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