On Google's last week announcements

One of the things presented during the Google I/O I consider particularly important. Some annotations (which might or might not lead to a a more structured piece):

• it was an error to compare mobile devices to computers
  • computers have protean nature; how they behave (the function they enable) depends on software
  • one chooses what functions his computer needs to perform, and buy appropriate software accordingly
  • On the other hand
  • Mobile devices use the computer and a ground model, but their nature is to be capable of many things off-the-shelves
  • Hence users can legitimately perceive as absurd the fact that software (apps) cost money
  • It feels more natural to pay for services
• Apps are not human concept
  • I mean the fact that one has to pass from an application to another one to accomplish tasks
  • see for example "The Human Interface" by Jef Raskin
  • On the user level, computer- and human- concepts are intermixed, but there's no human reason to do so
• Google presented "Instant Apps"
  • it seems they would eliminate to boundaries between one application and the other one
  • the OS is just a framework (with unified interfaces and metaphors) where users can accomplish tasks and access to services
  • OS seamlessly manages the acquisition of other components (modules? apps bits?) needed to do so