Since Google’s Android was first revealed it has been known that it was going to be open source. No one was quite sure when the source would show up but the good news is that it is available now (the day before the launch). The bad news? It is pretty boring to look at if you’re a non programmer. Don’t let that stop you from checking it out:

Android Code

What does this mean for the iPhone? Not much. Apple won’t feel enough pressure to open up OS X mobile and honestly most people don’t care about open versus closed, they just want easy over kludgy. Although it probably isn’t too much to hope that Apple will see any programming niftiness in Android’s source and do a littlebit of imitation if parts of the code are clearly superior.