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Google's Schmidt rewrites Nexus One history
THERE ARE TIMES when some folks hope that people will forget what they said a couple of years ago.
What a pity there is no way of searching the Internet to find stories to remind them.
Google's Eric Schmidt told the Telegraph that the firm's idea was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. He said that it was "so successful, we didn't have to do a second one."
Schmidt said that people criticised him heavily when he came up with that idea so he rang up the board. "Ok, it worked," he said he told them. "Congratulations - we're stopping. We like that flexibility, we think that flexibility is characteristic of nimbleness at our scale."
All good stuff however that is not quite how we remember it. In June we reported that Google had not managed to flog many of its Nexus One smartphones.
In fact the beancounters at Flurry told us that Google botched the launch of the Nexus One. Flurry worked out that Google had managed to sell only 135,000 units in 70 days, which was nothing like the Iphone 3G release.
Then in January this year we vaguely remember writing that people who did buy the Nexus One were being treated badly by Google, which did not set up a decent sales channel.
Clearly it was not all fun and games as Schmidt is now trying to claim.
There is no doubt that the Nexus One was a good learning experience for Google, but it was clearly one that Schmidt does not want to repeat. However it probably is not a good idea for him to try to rewrite history to change that fact.
At this rate we will be getting comments from Steve Jobs saying that the Newton was a good idea and from Bill Gates claiming that Microsoft Bob was a money spinner. µ
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I now you don't have time for a smartphone that isn't that smart.
Be different doesn't mean indifference.
The gadget geeks are the apple PC owners who want to mate the IPHONE and the apple laptop and sync and all of that nonsense but when you get past the comfortzone of syncing to have a real debate on the iphone. Folks say they dont really want to pay for all of those apps. TMOBILE doesnt have market share and hasnt devised a expansion methodology that will allow them to expand there network and maintain profitability. The other carriers only have a couple of phones but i think sprint has the right idea with the EVO android. The fact is that the android market will beat out the IPHONE and Windows Mobile theres no comparison. The IPHONE has one selling point its apple with larger memory than the competition. All the other phones sync all of the other phones are easy to navigate so the hype is manufactured. Get the bottomline 1.7Million there are 300 millionl americans 10% unemployment/146 million work thats less than one percent of the working population.
Obviously you've failed to realize that the June 30th survey showed that 26% of the smart phone market is Android based and 40% is iPhone based. Android's numbers are exploding (doubled in the past 3 months), iPhone figures have pretty much leveled off.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/android_gaining_on_apple_says_report.php
There's nothing new about what Grandma constantly warned of, which is that, "Pride comes before a fall..."
Wealth is neither emotional, material nor intellectual, wealth is auspiciousness, oka that which confers the benevolence of satisfaction, peace and finally love. Plain old luck, according to the unlucky, those who have yet to realised what luck really means. Meaning, O' Slobbery One ..
Just because a partial human, oka the one who does not know what or why he was born for, manages to accumulate material gains, which then facilitate his ability to accumulate emotional-cum-intellectual gain, doesn't mean his sense of valuation is real - relative, why of course - and should he then slides onto any sideshow and be hailed by the salivates and emptiness as the 3rd coming, he's still a partial human - the one who doesn't know, let alone realises, what being a partial human really means.
It usually means the futulity of all the benevolence/evolution showered but then, that's what Love is - the One who, because only She has the ability to truly create [energy], [therefore] has no notion nor expectation of any return. As such, how will anyone describe someone who is less than a "kid", say? Sub-Innocence or Proto-Innocence, perhaps? Not when you do not even know what or who Innocence truly is.
Here's one not-so-obvious freebie: Activity, oka The Ego, is the byproduct of cumbustion of one's physical and/or intellectual expenditure. As such, the more a human indulges in "efforts", the more egotistical he becomes - without a single exception - whereas within Reality, having a real ego, oka The [Enlightened] Ego, allows for the creation of All and Everything under The Sun. The difference between knowing and realising the validity of this fact, is the difference between being real and being relative. What good is having all the emotional, material and intellectual possessions, should one be all alone, there being no one available to at least take the snapshot of one’s moment of futility? Truly, a saviour needs his worshipper/s - ensure that you are neither one or the other other than to enjoy the joker’s tale.
The only way that Android is going to succeed is if Apple puts it on iPhones. Otherwise, despite "holding it wrong" and the other technical issues that plague it, the iPhone for sold 1.7 million units on it's first day. Anyone else got a smart phone selling that well? I don't think so. ALL must bow to the God of Tech, STEVE JOBS!!!!