Comments on: The Mythical Gphone

By: androidluvr, NYC

androidluvr, NYC — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:42:35 +0000

say goodbye to the iphone and hello to the android platform,

it will pretty much take over the mobile industry, open source rules, its been a good run iphone. maybe you guys can start on the next big iThing. oh and your new 3g iphone sucks bells.

By: danville, ca

danville, ca — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:02:03 +0000

Serious threat. Bwhahahaha. Google brilliant great in search and earns their right to be called great every 2 seconds but they honestly, go to their site and look at their software apps – it's all over the board – the ICONS are not even the same … how can you hope to compete with Apple when you can't get the most basic foundation right? Open phone foundation – great but what you will end up with is 86 phones with 86 different interfaces – Google is happy to have a hook in them but will it pose any threat to Apple – no. pretty much zero.

By: Asher Pat, London, UK

Asher Pat, London, UK — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:54:07 +0000

Do you notice the tendency of the press to rubbish anything that can, even in theory, compete with Apple?

If it is Windows or others, then the media does not fail to pepper the article with some "like Apple" or "less than Apple" or "clunky and unreliable" a-la Mossberg.

But in case of Google, this is a serious threat and the media (incl Elmer De Witt who is frequently attacked by Apple faithful for being err, unfaithful and refusing to automatically sing praise to the white fruit church) tries to find chinks in the "threat" to "their precious".

Wake up, Apple is not anymore a putative underdog on the brink of bankrupcy which needs some non-commercial and contrarian support by enthusiasts of its innovative products. Apple is a predator top-dog that is likely to topple Microsoft in 2008 as the most valuable tech company, as such it is much more greedy and ruthless to its partners. Witness the treatment O2 got from them: O2 CEO proudly boasted that he got a call from Apple: "be in Cupertino by Tuesday"…like a spotty girl trembling on a call from the class' hunk inviting her on a date in a secluded park at midnight…what a humiliation to O2!

By: Tommo_UK, London, UK

Tommo_UK, London, UK — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:35:42 +0000

People really shouldn't believe what they read in the WSJ. As I wrote in March:

The media and blogosphere seem to be going ape over the idea of a Google phone.

I don't buy it. Google is a search brand first and foremost. It isn't a CE brand, and I don't see this coming to fruition the way its being obsessed over. Google may be working on some kind of phone, but the brand is not a natural fit into the CE space, and I can't seeing it being a premium product. I can imagine Google working withphone manufacturers to release a Google OS for phones, which hard-links intoGoogle online services, syncs with them, and operates in much the same way a Blackberry does – but better – but I can't see them actually manufacturing and distributing a phone of their own.