Comments on: Fragmandroid: Google’s mad dash to Microsoftdom

By: George Bailey

George Bailey — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:14:42 +0000

It’s a year later and this is still a superb piece. The market (especially the emerging asian markets) will soon be flooded with “no-name” android phones that can compete only on price, and sold to people who can’t or won’t spend money on apps. Apple will get the money and the valuable customers.

The “high-end” Android-based phones will be sold by the big carriers with a contract, and then the actual cost of the phone is only a fraction of the cost of ownership, minimizing any price advantage.

Maintaining Android without the offsetting “cash-cowness” of it will become a larger and larger burden on Google, and eventually they will feel that pain and cut back.

By: Abhilash

Abhilash — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:13:36 +0000

Hmmm… A bit subjective isn’t it?

I found Linux Mint to be delightful.
I do find WIn7 to be delightful… lots of little things to surprise you now and then.

By: Kontra

Kontra — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:09:38 +0000

Delights.

By: Abhilash

Abhilash — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:59:44 +0000

So what does a Mac do that a PC doesn’t?

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:48:37 +0000

Agree. Insight, not mere information, is king!

By: Cadillac88

Cadillac88 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:54:50 +0000

Well, NEXUS sure was a dud. But Andriod at large probably cost Apple a million iPhone sales. Google is more and more seeming to be clumbsy. More and more aggressive too and not in a good way. That can’t be a good combination. I used to root for google but now I really beleive they are causing more harm than good in the way of advancing technology.
What is with google scanning all this copyrighted content lately and then making the owners fight to keep their rights to it. And what’s with this private Internet I hear they are building and their grand plan to subvert as much of the Internet traffic as they can through it. The Internet shouldn’t belong to any one entity because whoever owns it also sets the value of everything on it. For Google this means adspace will be valued highest, then, whatever the reason that brought you to the Internet and next to their Ads… it’s value has to be something less than that. And with Internet ads going for fractions of a penny it can’t be worth much. The implications of being locked up in a world like that needs to be explored.
So at first I disagreed with you Kontra. But lately I am seeing things differently. Yes, Google seems to have learned much from MS, and seem to be carrying the tradition on to new heights. A mad dash, as you say.

By: Kontra

Kontra — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:19:07 +0000

‘PlayedForSure’ is very apt. :)

By: Cadillac88

Cadillac88 — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:05:05 +0000

A lot of references to ‘PlayedForSure’ and Google’s partners in the news today. Somebody should copyright it.

By: Kontra

Kontra — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:53:26 +0000

So far there has been no penalty for Google. They likely feel manufacturers (other than RIM, Apple and Palm) have no other alternative, assuming Symbian, WinMo, etc, have no appeal/future, which is exactly how Microsoft felt after they gained initial traction: Apple, Novell, IBM, etc were not credible alternatives.

By: Kontra

Kontra — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:48:44 +0000

They must be after immaculate conception. It’s a popular concept. :)