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Google Attack On the Mobile Market Rumored
xchg writes in with a somewhat speculative, though plausible, piece from WiseAndroid claiming that Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new, Google-branded handset and the first comprehensive Google phone service with unlimited free calls. "The real breakthrough, however, will come with the marriage of the Googlephone to Google Voice, the Californian company’s high-tech phone service. Google Voice gives US users a free phone number and allows unlimited free calls to any phone in the country — landline or mobile. International calls start from... just over a penny a minute. Google Voice also uses sophisticated voice recognition to turn voicemails into emails, can block telemarketing calls automatically and offers free text messaging. Google sounded its intentions two weeks ago when it purchased a small company called Gizmo5... [E]xperts are predicting that the Googlephone will be launched in the US early next year."
is for Dear Leader to nationalize Google so the takeover of the American public will be complete.
Seems obvious to anybody that the company that assimilates, disrupts and dominates over the competition is Google.
They are monopolists of information and now they aim for communication. I'm a fan of Google, but we must be wary about Google's aspirations.
Perhaps Slashdot should change the google icon here to a borg icon like Microsoft's. Of course not, people here slobber over Google and Apple, but slag Microsoft at every opportunity.
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It also concerns me, in the long term. What is google doing to finance all this ( and their other potential market takeovers )? What is their end goal if they own everything? Why should i trust them anymore then any other company?
Remember, power corrupts.. At what point does it corrupt Google and we ALL get to pay the price?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Maybe they should focus on fixing the devices they already have on the market rather than bringing out whole new things?
.9 level rather than ready for prime time.
The Android is an interesting device but Exchange-Calendar sync is broken (even my iPod Touch does it better), the camera is mediocre and a lot of features just feel like they're
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You forgot to include "and have said they want ChromeOS to run on ARM netbooks that are totally locked down so you can't even install a printer driver".
Tivo, meet Google. Google, meet Tivo.
"It's for security reasons!" - yeah - their security. Can't have people installing adblock on that Google netbook. >p> How about them using Google voice-to-text so they can search your conversations to "deliver more targeted ads for a better experience"?
Google is an advertising ocmpany - EVERYTHING else is secondary to that. Remember that.
I see the Googlebots modded you -1 Troll. Why? Because it's very believable. And it's probably what they'd end up doing. So there'd be all these nice transcripts lying around ... that could be VERY profitable.
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The only way to avoid negative impact is to keep the card account open, even if you don't use it, which means you'll pay fees for no service.
Doesn't that sound like a racket? If you want to close your paid off account, they will lower your score.
You are welcome on my lawn.