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Last week I was speaking on Android at SMX West an Internet Marketing conference in Santa Clara California just outside San Jose.

Keynoting the SMX West conference was Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, when Q&A was opened to the audience I asked him his vision of Microsoft in the mobile space going forward.

At the 1 hour 21 minute 50 seconds point in the Ustream video below I spoke to Steve Ballmer.

I first complemented the Windows Phone 7 which does look impressive although I believe Android & the iPhone will leapfrog it by the time it actually comes out at the end of the year.

Android has affirmed it is the platform of liberty for adults as Apple again becomes the Big Brother determining what its iPhone users can handle.

Last week Apple with its undeclared rules are removing applications that are considered by THEM to be “overtly sexual content…there will be no more applications that are for any purpose of excitement or titillation”

The Android Market welcomed “titillation” this weekend alone with a PornHub, Strip Blackjack, and even a Sexy Feet app while adding “excitement” with the Google Earth application today (for Android 2.1).

As an aside from my rants on the conduct of Apple, the users of  Android are now sharing the usage trending of those of the iPhone as both sets of users greatly increased their mobile social media use.

The reasoning perhaps to why Android follows a similar usage path as the iPhone may be that it is now more mainstream thanks to the Verizon Droid advertising push last year and Google itself debuting the Nexus One.

Although it seems Google gives away more N1s for free at conferences than it sells.

There has been another move by an oppressive authority trying to undermine a movement first by rigging the rules, then ignoring it and now by banning the very name of the movement.

This not only applies to Iran but also in the mobile realm as Apple is that secretive dominant authority.

Apple rigs the rules of the App Store without any transparent explanation then dismisses as irrelevant Android along with some Google applications and now with the outright banning of any reference to Android.

Google offering free Android phones to gamers at the 2010 Game Developers Conference may help drive gamers to Android but maybe not as much as Apple’s new application removal policy.

Google will provide a free Nexus One or Droid to those that register for an All Access or Tutorials and Summits passes by the Early Bird deadline at the 2010 Game Developers Conference, which is smart so as to encourage more games to be produced for Android since 7 out of the top 10 Android applications are games.