Google Phone Rumors Continue to Gain Steam

i think google is spreading themselves too thin

i think google is spreading themselves too thin

I think Google is an incredibily rich company it'll take more than one phone to spread themselves thin. :)

I agree. Google is like the new Microsoft but free haha.

They are making a lot of the same mistakes with their mobile platform that Microsoft made and it is becoming very fragmented and a game between them and 3rd party manufacturers! They may be working on future versions of Android obviously, but it will not be anything drastically different from the current. They can't even really keep up as it is.

There are a lot of parallels between them and Microsoft. The big difference is that Google isn't trying to protect an OEM lock-in monopoly with everything else they do, they are just trying to infiltrate any and everything they can to make ad money and gain data. But that is the only reason they are entering all these new areas, and guess what? They don't have experience in ANY of these areas! Also, their motivation is strictly ad and data money, not the end user, or the 3rd parties.

Google is turning into a mess! :rolleyes:

Let them and Microsoft fight over trying to do everything to protect their monopolistic revenue while Apple begins to dominate all markets with their vastly superior products, decades of experience and knowledge, and one complete end to end package of hardware and software coupled with a seamless ecosystem! :)

When will Microsoft learn that their license the software and don't make the hardware model success was a fluke that they have been trying to keep from falling apart ever since. The fact that they are imitating Apple in virtually every way including their software/hardware business model is proof that they realize what is going on. And now Google is making the same mistakes. You'd think they would research or know a bit about the history of the computer industry and how things really went down. :rolleyes:

Great! Another phone to confuse app dev teams with.

I don't believe in a public option.. er I mean in a gPhone. What's so special about "google branded hardware"? They are not a fab company and they are not a hardware design company so the idea that it will only have google branding doesn't lend any credibility to the phone or make it any more compelling than other android devices on the market. HTC Sense is compelling.

I still have a hard time believing that Google will stab their phone partners in the back the way Microsoft did to their Play-for-sure partners when they came out with the Zune.

Yes, I know it's not exactly the same (this wouldn't be quite as bad, actually) but it's pretty close and I just can't see Google doing it.

i think google is spreading themselves too thin

Perhaps. But one could say the same thing about Apple getting into the tablet market. It's all subjective.

Ah, but if Apple is trying to get in on the ground floor for a possible emerging tablet market, couldn't Google be trying to get in -- albeit late -- on a hardware smart phone device? Perhaps it's worth a shot and Google has the resources and goodness knows the money to do so.

Yeah right, the "real" Android.
Who believes that nonsense? :rolleyes:

Yeah right, the "real" Android.
Who believes that nonsense? :rolleyes:

Plus it was a quote from someone who was talking to the source not the source it self and it was labelled as offhanded. I mean really, who prints that kind of thing?

I think OJ is using the "real" Android to find the "real" killer...