This is big news as far as Google and Verizon is concerned. It would definitely give a big boost to Google‘s mobile OS Android. Google and Verizon have joined hands and have become partners with the primary vision of building Android devices.
According to this strategic partnership Verizon and Google will be developing, marketing as well as distributing Android devices. Google and Verizon plan to build applications and upload them onto the Android devices.
That does not mean that third party developers cannot contribute in this part. Third party developers can also develop and deploy their applications onto Android devices.
Let us see how this partnerhsip works out.