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For example, if you have two similar (by functionality) Android based devices, one from Motorola and another from Google, which one will you buy ? Obviously it
by ruslan 17y ago
For example, if you have two similar (by functionality) Android based devices, one from Motorola and another from Google, which one will you buy ? Obviously it will undercut Motorola's business because Motorola will not be able to sell Android phones due to availability of a better (more feature-rich, more open, not locked to a particualr carrier) device coming directly from Google.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoOr, alternatively, perhaps Google will discover that their business interests are better aligned with Motorola/Verizon and will focus on bugfixes and enhancements for that, ignoring their own phone. Which would leave yet another half-assed Android phone on the market, confusing the customers ("which of the 35 brands of similar-looking phone has that feature I saw in the commercial, again?") and dragging down the brand. Android is a younger platform than the iPhone and has already implicitly deprecated an entire generation of hardware. Meanwhile, I can attest that the first generation iPhone still works fine -- runs faster than ever, in fact, thanks to the backward-compatible software updates and consistent UI. This is what people worry about when they worry about too many Android products undercutting each other. And why the arrival of a potential flagship product -- the Droid phone, which even has the right name! -- looks like it could be a good thing for the platform; it could impose some focus. Why on Earth is Google planning to confuse that issue?