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 We're saving Wired's lengthy profile of Google's (GOOG) Android mobile phone project for our subway ride home, but Daring Fireball author John Gruber has already read and digested it into an excellent post . Gruber is an Apple geek, and many of his readers are Apple geeks. So we assume many of them want Gruber to hate/bash Android, which will compete with Apple's (AAPL) iPhone. Not happening, Gruber says. "My obsession is with wonderful, thoughtful software and gadgetry," no matter whose brand is stamped on it. So what does he think about Android's chances to beat Apple? If things work out ideally with Android, it's easy to imagine how Android, as an overall platform, could wind up being better than the iPhone, or at least could force Apple to open the iPhone software platform further. But that's an enormously big if. The big advantage Apple has with the iPhone is that they control the entire product, top to bottom. The case, the chipsets, the OS, the user interface. Apple knows exactly what the screen will look like when a brand new iPhone is turned on for the first time. Google's dependence on hardware and carrier partners puts the final product out of their control - and into the control of companies whose histories have shown them to be incompetent at design and hostile to users. His hunch : That Google will have to go back on its word and make a top-to-bottom Google phone, presumably because it's frustrated with the mediocre ... |
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