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Google should have been developing high-quality phones in conjunction with developing Android. I thought perhaps this was the point of buying Motorola (albeit l
by loceng 13y ago
Google should have been developing high-quality phones in conjunction with developing Android. I thought perhaps this was the point of buying Motorola (albeit late to the party), though it seems it didn't play out that way; They're going for the being the platform and sourcing the technology from multiple vendors.
- fennecfoxen 13y agoGoogle's forays into hardware and phones have been covered and analyzed elsewhere, and the main takeaway I got is that they tried to do phones with the typical Google-ish mindset combining a "build it and they will come" mentality with zero customer support. And it didn't work too well, probably because people have different attitudes to fancy smartphones that cost money than they do to free email. :P