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darxus ([personal profile] darxus) wrote2007-11-05 02:12 pm
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Google isn't making a cellphone, they're making a platform.

First models expected in the second half of 2008.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/wheres-my-gphone.html

The platform is called Android.

"It is built to be truly open."
"Android is built on the open Linux Kernel."
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/android_overview.html

[identity profile] cathijosephine.livejournal.com 2007-11-05 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Yaaaayyy!!
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[personal profile] mangosteen 2007-11-05 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Makes sense.
A cellphone is just a product.
A platform is a cash cow.

[identity profile] tober.livejournal.com 2007-11-05 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
My take on this is that it's utterly doomed to failure like every similar effort to date - despite Google throwing their weight behind it. I think it's evidence that Google doesn't take this particularly seriously (or that they're utterly unwilling to become a "hardware company"). If they really wanted to make a gPhone they would. They're not, so clearly they don't. I'm sure that when and if products based on the platform make it to market they will have some traction from the Google association, but I'm predicting that this will neither be an iPhone killer nor something that changes the way that wireless carriers do business (e.g. by creating advertising-supported wireless phone service).