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Is this all native? Parts of it feels like javascript.
How do you feel JavaScript???!
Europe is such a tiny market, why would they even consider trying something like this out here :) sniff sniff Do I have to make a sacrifice to some modern deity or something to see this on our side of the pond? Oh pretty please Goog? :)
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So why make Android at all? If Apple removes Google search from the iPhone and disallows AdMob then how are they going to make money from the iPhone? Google Voice isn't a good example of what I'm talking about (so, I guess that makes this off topic), but take Google Goggles for instance, where is the benefit of them porting that to iPhone? - I'm genuinely interested here. Surely there is more money to be made from pe…
Google wants more people to use that Internet more often. That's it. The more users (web, mobile, tv, whatever) the more money they make (in the big picture). If they can help the carriers get more people using smart phones, they are happy. The android vs. iPhone stuff is just the small battle. The war is Internet use vs. Anything else (jogging? Sex? Swimming? And other activities google can't target with ads)
Out of interest, I wonder how much money Google actually makes from mobile Safari usage? Ie, if you took away Google search + Admob integration into the iPhone, how much benefit would they still have? (Even worse, replace it with Bing search, so that most searches the user does on their phone see Bings in-search advertisements)
Would be interesting to see the stats on how advertising goes in mobile optimized websites, and just how likely a user is to click on an ad-link while using their phone browser. I know my mobile browsing is either reading stuff, or looking up information I want to see, then getting out, whereas on a PC I'm more likely to wander around the internet earning money for Google.
GV Mobile+ still has a lot of features that this official google app doesn't match, like the ability to paste phone numbers into the dial pad and ability to rout numbers via Skype.
Now that they have an official app, maybe they'll iterate fast to catch up to GV Mobile's features.
Doesn't seem to be available for iPod Touch even though many of the features would work fine on it.
There are way more iPod touches out there than iPhones. This could have been a great ipod touch app for people who don't want to pay ridiculous amounts for a phone.
Doesn't seem to be available for iPod Touch even though many of the features would work fine on it.
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There are way more iPod touches out there than iPhones. This could have been a great ipod touch app for people who don't want to pay ridiculous amounts for a phone.
Are there actually? Could you link me to numbers on that?
iPod touch and iPad users account for a little under half of all iOS devices. Still a huge portion of the market to miss.
It's ironic that Apple might have changed their app store rules to allow a Google product (GV) into the app store in order to counter another Google product (Android)
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Are there actually? Could you link me to numbers on that?
http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/cell-phones/apple-iphon... iPod touch and iPad users account for a little under half of all iOS devices. Still a huge portion of the market to miss.
GV Mobile+ still has a lot of features that this official google app doesn't match, like the ability to paste phone numbers into the dial pad and ability to rout numbers via Skype.