“By scheduling the event just two days before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company would seem to be taking a page from the Steve Jobs’s playbook–sucking some air out of the annual event. Remember, Apple upstaged CES in a very big way back in 2007 when it announced the iPhone,” Paczkowski reports. “It appears that Google is attempting something similar here.”
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It will be a Droid-killer!
Steve left that Google mole on the Apple board too long.
@ spark
I agree. What would really piss me off is if Google secretly has been working on a tablet that would in any way steal ideas from Apple’s rumored product.
It happened once with Microsoft back 30 years ago. I’d hate to see it happen again in 2010.
Apple: “We’d like to announce a smartphone that not only
sets a new standard for mobile devices, but also revolutionizes the carrier and software development models.”
/thunderous applause
Google: “We’d like to announce a device that runs the same OS that exists on several other phones already hosted by several other carriers”
/crickets
@Spark:
Can’t trust anyone anymore
U peeps seem to forget that apple put iTunes software on motorla phone before coming Coming out with the iPhone… Google jus dooin it on a bigger scale google htc = damn good phone go play with htc hero at a sprint store… I believe nexus google branded phone will b even better… Google has deep pockets and inovative t honking just like apple
Google is the new Microsoft.
Except at least Microsoft found ways of monetizing the ideas they copied. Google hasn’t made a real, viable business out of anything but search.
“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”
Hopefully, they’ll be announcing availability of Android 2.1 across all platforms.
@XJM, good point.
Apple has done it before (GUI), but the Motorola ROKR is maybe the best.
@XJM
iTunes is not an OS. Apple is not offering the iPhone OS to other developers while undercutting them by building their own phone. Google behaving more like Microsoft than Apple.
“a tablet that would in any way steal ideas from Apple’s rumored product.”
Steal ideas from an unannounced product ? I’d like to know how you do that
hoop-te-do.
I think it’s great, regardless of that nonesense about a Google Mole, keep in mind apple had a person on the google board as well.
Clearly, Google wants to get some sort of jump on Apple by a few weeks. They realize that once Apple makes their announcement no one will be talking about anything else, and if they wait until a few weeks after, it’ll be even more anti-climactic.
It would appear that Google is delusional – that it thinks it can maybe, somehow, sort of one-up Apple at some point. But they haven’t a prayer. They smell very much like they suffer from the same strain of MS “me too” disease.
Have you seen videos of this phone? I was thinking of getting one instead of the iphone. But IT SUCKS. So, I won’t be getting one!
@XJMPasadena CA
OT. Does your browser have built in spell checking?
Google playing the zune card… uhm, what good is that gonna do them, backstapping their partners???
Many of you folks sound like the folks in the earlier MDN article about the Tablet. MDN lists about 20 quotes of old that said similar things about the iPhone. How can you be so sure that you know any more than Balmer or Dvorack did back then? Just saying stuff does not make it true. I love my iPhones but know that some day there will be something better. And it may not come from Apple. All this doom talk reminds me of a sports bar.
@ sha
Easy. You sit on the board of directors of Apple. Hear updates on the product that is still rumored. Then run back to your own company (Google) and get a bunch of engineers and a room and say, “This is a cool idea. See if you can do it first.”
Now go bye-bye, sha.
i’d rather watch a “The View” marathon than to tune in to that GoogledyGoop.
Is this when they officially announce they will also begin to eat their own offspring? (Droid, Eris, Hero, Sony, etc.)
Let’s see, we have Android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1 all in the market at the same time on “flagship” Android phones. Great way to “push” the market forwards.
Google schmoogle. Pfft.
Their Android phone is splintering and continues to be cast into the wind.
What if Google stopped being an Apple users favorite search tool?
What if Apple decided to create an Apple alternative to anything Google?
What if Apple users decided to boycott Eric Shmidt’s backstabbing betrayal of trust en mass?
Apple is 1st and foremost the world’s best software company
Google is not a hardware company and certainly has no track record to count on as such…
What if Apple decided to count on it’s army of loyal fans to show Google a lesson in loyalty?
Von Schmidt, vere is your integrity ???
You backstabbing mole.
“i’d rather watch a “The View” marathon than to tune in to that GoogledyGoop.”
I’ve always thought that forcing a man to watch that show should violate the Geneva Conventions.