The article and the study looks at smartphones. There is a lot of people that just wants a nice phone that they can call other people with. A lot of these people also wants to take pictures or listen to music on their phone. Most of these people do not want to install third party applications on their phones. These handsets are much cheaper to buy and sells in much greater numbers. Some of these phones have the capabilities of what was really expensive phones a couple of years ago. So they need a shiny OS driving them.
If Google wanted to copy what Apple has been doing they could start selling a clone - the gPhone. But is Google really a hardware company? No, not really. As I understand it Google is trying to get Android to be the OS that other companies will want as the OS in their phones. Not Google's phones but their phones. In order to make that happen they have to give up total control.
Apple will probably be able to continue selling sexy expensive phones and make a great profit doing so. I think Google wants Android to be the OS that powers the rest of market. Look out Symbian.
I live in Stockholm, please tell me where I can sign up for a 100Mb/s connection for $11/month.
The blog post is pure nonsense. The uplink speed is not really that interesting. Sure you can get a connection with that kind of uplink but how does that differ from a 1Gb/s service?
Hell I can sell you a 10Gb/s service for 12$/month. It won't connect anywhere but it will give you a really cool uplink and you will a nice 10Gb/s to all my other customers in your appartment.
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The article and the study looks at smartphones. There is a lot of people that just wants a nice phone that they can call other people with. A lot of these people also wants to take pictures or listen to music on their phone. Most of these people do not want to install third party applications on their phones. These handsets are much cheaper to buy and sells in much greater numbers. Some of these phones have the capabilities of what was really expensive phones a couple of years ago. So they need a shiny OS driving them.
If Google wanted to copy what Apple has been doing they could start selling a clone - the gPhone. But is Google really a hardware company? No, not really. As I understand it Google is trying to get Android to be the OS that other companies will want as the OS in their phones. Not Google's phones but their phones. In order to make that happen they have to give up total control.
Apple will probably be able to continue selling sexy expensive phones and make a great profit doing so. I think Google wants Android to be the OS that powers the rest of market. Look out Symbian.
I live in Stockholm, please tell me where I can sign up for a 100Mb/s connection for $11/month. The blog post is pure nonsense. The uplink speed is not really that interesting. Sure you can get a connection with that kind of uplink but how does that differ from a 1Gb/s service? Hell I can sell you a 10Gb/s service for 12$/month. It won't connect anywhere but it will give you a really cool uplink and you will a nice 10Gb/s to all my other customers in your appartment.