Google Says "We're Not Doing a Mobile Phone"

thefickler writes "A top Google executive has denied outright that the company is developing a mobile phone. Last week rumors were flying after a Google official speaking in Spain said that the company was looking into offering a mobile phone; and British phone analyst Richard Windsor claimed that during CeBIT Google staff confirmed that a Google mobile phone was being developed. However, Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and research, has now said 'We're not doing a mobile phone, I'd like to find something that is broader, rather than do yet another mobile device.'"

Comments

So?

[BibelBiber]

And Apple is not doing a Video iPod. Companies have always been stating that they're not doing something which never really sopped them from doing what they want. So who cares? If they do a phone let them do it and if not why bother?

Nationwide Wi-Fi

[blindjim]

Now that would be a bit broader, mightn't it?

Re:Too bad (Looking for investors!)

[AuMatar]

My dream phone:

makes calls
6 hours of active battery life

Thats it. I wish phone companies would work on making it a better phone rather than adding useless extras.

Re:First things first

[c_forq]

Umm... what? I thought we moved past mercantilism over a century ago. Less abuse of monopoly status and illegal business practices is better for everyone else, but it is possible for multiple companies in the same industry to all grow and increase in size and profitability.

Re:First things first

[westlake]

The less money that Microsoft earns, the more there is for everyone else.

Fully half of Apple's revenues can be traced back to iTunes and the iPod. It ain't iTunes on the Mac with its 2% market share world-wide that's delivering those big bucks to Cupertino.

OSX on the x86 platform runs on a sub-set of the hardware which evolved with the commodity PC running Windows. The Linux Geek - if he is honest - also knows that it was the mass-market PC running Windows which transformed the home user from the Geek with the 14K modem to the family with fiber to the premises---and did it all in little more than ten years.

Re:Too bad (Looking for investors!)

[alanwj]

I wish phone companies would work on making it a better phone rather than adding useless extras.

This is the same argument that people use against features in "bloated" software. The problem is, that while everybody agrees that there are a lot of "useless extras", no two people can agree on what is useless and what isn't. What is useless to you may be critical for someone else.

Re:Too bad (Looking for investors!)

[linhux]

My dream is that people would stop making that exact comment every time phones are discussed on Slashdot. Seriously, it was almost an interesting topic five years ago. Now it's just boring.