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Absolutely not; however, I feel that Google made a big mistake. It released a Minimum Viable Product, which might have been okay for other companies to do, but
by dbz 17y ago
Absolutely not; however, I feel that Google made a big mistake. It released a Minimum Viable Product, which might have been okay for other companies to do, but because Google is such a large brand name- and such a large part of the internet- it is expected to come out with an amazing product.
A minimum viable product phone is simply not acceptable for someone like my mother who would by the phone because it has Google's name on it. (Yes. I understand that example has a fallacy or two, but it should make my point clear.)
On the other hand, I keep on getting more and more interested in this phone!
- RK 17y agoI think expectations need to be pretty stratospheric for the Nexus One to be considered a "minimally viable product".
- mechanical_fish 17y agoThe iPhone was over two years old and extremely common when the Nexus One was released. Its once-astonishing features are now considered kind of routine. Its level of polish is rapidly becoming the industry standard. The minimum is always moving. It would be a different story if the Nexus One were tailored for a niche market. And, in fact, it arguably is: for much of the geek target market, the market of people who know what multitasking is and thrill to read the fine print on the contracts at the Android App Store, the Nexus One is far more than a minimum viable product. And so it seems to get a lot of buzz in that market. Hopefully its market is large enough to sustain something like it.