____/ dapunka on Monday 23 July 2007 23:45 : \____
> On 23 Jul, 01:56, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The Real Google Phone?
>>
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>> | Venture capitalist Simeon Simeonov has made a post on his VC blog
>> | High Contrast that he claims to be an insider tip on the hotly
>> | anticipated, yet still speculative, Google Phone.
>> `----
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>> http://crunchgear.com/2007/03/06/the-real-google-phone/
>
> I find this interesting. Google have a reputation for being "not
> evil" - undeserved, I think, judging from their Chinese venture - and
> have been placed in opposition to Microsoft several times. Are they
> now going to oppose Apple? The photo in the blog does suggest that
> this googlephone is similar to the iPhone, at least in appearance: no
> keys, all touchscreen.
Schmidt is on Apple's board, so they won't screw Apple. In fact, Schmidt was
one of the first people to wave and boast an iPhone.
> Is there any reason to believe the googlephone would be open source?
> There have been those "goobuntu" rumours before, though nothing's been
> released. And I'm sure that a googlephone would have a seamless UI,
> like the iPhone, with various "g-apps" built-in.
Google won't sell Linux for the same reason IBM does not. SoC seems to be
helping a bit, but they still ought to port more applications to Linux and
release more source code which might be valuable.
As for the phone (or even desktop O/S), they only need something that can
establish a connection where it is available. That said, being too dependent
on Web-based apps makes the phone (or laptop) useless at times. They work with
Mozilla on offline Web-based apps enablement. Firefox 3.0 will be the start.
There's also Gears.
> Google's an unending rumour mill. But they also turn out a constant
> array of software.
Google is like Apple in that respect, but Microsoft is worse. Microsoft doesn't
hide things. It lies. It lies about dates, about products and features
(vapourware) and it lies about its failures (e.g. Vista, XBox360, Zune sales).
Secrecy != deception.
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