Jiwei Wang’s Notepad

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 [...]

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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), [...]

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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, [...]

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