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>I'll be moving to Android. Google's Android? As in Google, the inventor of the "perpetual beta"?
by batista 14y ago
>I'll be moving to Android.
Google's Android? As in Google, the inventor of the "perpetual beta"?
- potatolicious 14y agoAs of right now the perpetual beta is a lot better than the supposed "final" iOS6 maps. So yeah.
- icebraining 14y agoBut they don't usually revert in quality.
- batista 14y agoThe Google Reader redesign fiasco? Google Wave to Google+ transition? It's not like Apple "usually reverts in quality" either. This was a business decision, probably forced. They had to create something of their own for maps from what they could license and buy quickly. Goes to show that you should not depend on your competitors for core technology. Which Apple always tries to avoid, but probably in 2007 (when the iPhone come out) the didn't think of Google as a competitor. They weren't in the phone business back then...
- icebraining 14y agoThey weren't? In what could be a key move in its nascent wireless strategy, Google (GOOG) has quietly acquired startup Android Inc., BusinessWeek Online has learned. The 22-month-old startup, based in Palo Alto, Calif., brings to Google a wealth of talent, including co-founder Andy Rubin, who previously started mobile-device maker Danger Inc. -- BusinessWeek, August 16, 2005 http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-08-16/google-buys-android-for-its-mobile-arsenal http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-08-16/google-buys-a...
- batista 14y ago>They weren't? Yes, they weren't. The first Android phone appeared one year after the iPhone (HTC Dream, released on October 22, 2008). That 2005 acquisition didn't automatically make the two companies competitors...
- drivebyacct2 14y agoAnd have you used Android lately?