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Report: Google makes software, not handsets
A New York Times report about the rumored Google Phone is making a lot of waves in the blogosphere today, but it only serves to confirm what we already know: Google makes software, not phones. Most of the rumors about the gPhone have always paired Google with a handset maker (often HTC) to handle the hardware aspects of a gPhone. The report cites various inside sources to claim that Google's intention is to take on the Windows Mobile OS platform with an OS and Linux-based suite of applications that it will offer to carriers in exchange for shared mobile advertising revenue. One mobile marketing executive, JumpTap CEO Dan Olschwang, characterized the plan as one to "disaggregate carriers."
For more on the gPhone:
- read the NYTimes article
Related articles:
gPhone drilldown
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Posted by Nick Morgan | October 8, 2007 - 8:08pm
I love these comparisons of unannounced produce versus another. People are so authoritative, and after a few posts, we just all seem to conspire to agree to forget that we’re all just making it up.
If these kinds of rampant expectations had been dogging Apple 5 1/2 years ago, then when they introduced the 1G iPod 5 years ago, people would have been disappointed it wasn’t more like the 5G one they had in mind. Wait, scratch that. More like the 6G iPod, since we still can fantasize about that one without realistic constraints.
Posted by Mellowstill | February 4, 2008 - 12:16pm
I don't know about Google producing software .. only ..!!
As I applied for employment at a new Google facility located in The Dalles Oregon .. The interview for this position was so secretive that the interviewers could not reveal any information about the products that I would be working with .. but .. in fact .. did explain the functions of the job requirements .. such as .. bending down .. pulling out huge baskets of supplies and parts .. assembling products and working with a sort of wire harness, sorting and pulling wires through and plugging them in. Thus .. I never knew that software programs had any wires that needed plugged in ..?? : )
