The Man Behind the Google Phone

I enjoyed reading this article yesterday, prior to today's big announcement about the Google open source mobile phone software initiative. Rubin's past is quite interesting, and I really like the bit about him trying to reconcile his obvious lifelong love of gadgetry with Google's stated stance against "conspicuous consumerism." Really?? Google--the little company that is making its fortune from targeted consumer advertising--is strongly against "conspicuous consumerism?" Oh, puh-lease.