What baffles me is that when I walk around New York, I don't see a single Android, Nexus One, etc. ad.
But I do see iPad ads. I see iPhone ads. I see iPod ads. Often.
Since Google's business is advertising, I am amused.
Google pulls plug on Nexus One
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is great for you, but for 99% of the rest of the planet that doesn't give a flying f * about open source or couldn't care less about hacking a phone, the fragmentation of the Android market is only going to piss them off when they eventually encounter the day where their friends can do some cool thing on their Android phones, and they can't. With the iPhone the path of progression from one phone to another is si…
99% of the market for smart phones, before the iPhone were corporate customers. We do care about what our users can install on OUR phones, we also don't want to only be able to install OUR software on OUR phones for OUR users with Steve Job's permission.
Corporate customers can side load apps on iOs now.
Company handsets no longer make up 99% of smartphone, if at all they ever did.
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#103The best comment I've heard on this news came from John Gruber: "Here’s the list of Android phones you can buy today other than the Nexus One which support Android version 2.2: {}."
Best in terms of what exactly? Baseline snarkiness? Most customers don't know, much less care about, the exact version number of their phone's operating system. They care about what the operating system can do for them. But I suppose if Gruber were to compare the actual capabilities of currently available Android systems vs. iOS 4, he would have much less to be snarky about on Apple's behalf.
Please tell me what Froyo does the iOS4 doesn't. I switched from a 3gs to an N1 and the primitive nature of android is apparent at every corner.
Browser runs like crap. Try loading a page with a bunch of graphics and text. It will run like a flip book cartoon.
The music player is laughable. It doesn't even match up to an ipod classic.
The exchange syncing does not work correctly, especially calendar syncing.
And a laundry list of other 'features' which exist in Android but are woefully inadequate.
I would switch back to an iPhone in a heartbeat if it wasn't on ATT.
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#104Any numbers on how many sold so far?
They sold 135.000 devices in the first 74 days. Maybe now they are at ~200.000.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
99% of the market for smart phones, before the iPhone were corporate customers. We do care about what our users can install on OUR phones, we also don't want to only be able to install OUR software on OUR phones for OUR users with Steve Job's permission.
Corporate customers can side load apps on iOs now. Company handsets no longer make up 99% of smartphone, if at all they ever did.
Apple's corporate side-load program requires you to prove that you have 250 employees. Running a local service company with 120 employees? Sorry, you're too small to qualify for side-loading. Build your custom competitive advantage apps and load them into the iTunes store for everyone or go without.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use VoIP for almost all calls on my N1, but any Android phone will allow you to do it pretty conveniently. For instance, I have two friends who are doing the same with their G1 and Moto Droid respectively. We use the sipdroid application with gizmo5.
Do you not have any problems with dropped calls due to data being the lowest priority when the cell tower is processing heavy traffic? I have had this problem with data in general (when I go to a concert, for example, it's almost impossible to use data reliably, moderately difficult to use voice, and SMS works perfectly).
Indeed that is sometimes a problem, but I don't make a ton of voice calls in super-high volume areas.
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#107I feel it's worth pointing out that they haven't killed the phone, just their retail channel. Theoretically the thing could finally become available in carrier stores now, although they probably won't bother after Google's rather poor handling of the marketing and publicity. Sad to see them giving up on challenging the carriers, but with no retail 'Google stores' where people could examine the thing before paying ~$5…
One of the carriers here is selling them.
http://store.vodafone.com.au/handset-htc-nexus-one.aspx?pid=...
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uh, there are obvious differences between different versions of the iPhone and/or iPod Touch that lead to new version envy. Otherwise why would anyone upgrade?
The thing is though--if you go into a store and by an iPhone, you're guaranteed to have the newest version. If you go and buy an Android phone, you never quite know what you're getting.
Unless you go into the store and buy the $99 old model?
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#109You can still buy the N1, just not from Google. I think they gave up too soon.
Actually, you can still buy it from Google; you just need to be a registered developer, which is free.
Re: Google pulls plug on Nexus One
#110The best comment I've heard on this news came from John Gruber: "Here’s the list of Android phones you can buy today other than the Nexus One which support Android version 2.2: {}."
Actually, It appears that 2.2 started rolling out today to the Droid X. http://moretechnews.com/news/tech-industry/540717/motorola-d...
I don't have one, can anyone confirm?