Jul 18 2009
On a post entitled “App stores are not the future, says Google“, Chris Nuttall reported
App stores do not represent the future of the mobile industry according to Google’s vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra, who maintains consumers will instead turn to web browsers to fill their information and entertainment needs. Speaking Thursday [...]
Nov 14 2007
Google announced the availability of Android platform SDK this week. However devices running Android will only come after mid of 2008. Like the saying in an old joke, reading the software manual without the hardware is like reading a porn book without the software. It’s hard to hold the urge.
Meanwhile, Google also set up $10 million in prizes for developers [...]
Nov 05 2007
Alas, it turns out eventually that the much anticipated GPhone is a software platform, closely toeing the line of Google’s business model. As we’re recovering the torturing suspense, let’s see who are friends and who are foes of “GPhone”.
Google’s announcement this afternoon came together with the Open Handset Alliance. Sifting through the member list (http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html), [...]
Oct 11 2007
Considering Google’s revenue sources and their track record in selling a product, there’s very little in a Google phone.
Why? Google’s main business is in advertising. Advertising creates value in mass markets. Let’s assume that Google could sell the gPhone as fast as Apple, i.e. 1 million devices in 3 months. After a year, [...]