“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.”
Full article, with a copy of the media invite, here.
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Why delete my post MDN?
I only pointed out that there is actual Mac news out there like Apple dropping the Education Store price on the Macbook now, just $899. $100 off now instead of $50 off.
But you choose to cover Google press releases instead…..
And the Macbook price drop still isn’t a headline?….
MDN’s take is on the mark. Whatever Android may or may not become eventually, right now it’s simply the next great hope for Windows drones and other retarded consumers who find some sort of half-baked meaning in avoiding Apple products at any cost.
In their own way, Google is no less a giant than Apple. But strictly speaking, Google is neither a software nor a hardware company. It’s a technology company. In the end, even with their vast resources and technical savvy, Google may turn out to be just another also-ran when it comes to competing head-to-head with Apple’s best products.
Apple, for their part, is not sitting still while the rest of the industry struggles to compete with the products and services Apple invented years ago. Later in January, Apple will be hosting its own press event. Nobody’s entirely sure what Apple will be announcing, but it won’t be another smart phone.
When Steve Jobs said that Apple doesn’t skate for the puck, but goes where the puck is going to be, he was giving a very precise description of the strategy that Apple has followed, without fail, since his return to the helm. Nobody else is doing that. Everybody is always trying to grab the puck. In the game that Apple is playing, they don’t stand a chance.
Seriously, the Nexus One vs. Droid thing is hilarious…. Google is shooting itself in the foot by going head to head (via HTC) against its partners….
Like us, I guess they want Motorola to die…
Pile them on. More handsets running more OSs will only help Apple. With a market of platforms, the one with critical mass wins. Turning on your partners isn’t a great strategy (see PlaysForSure vs. Zune), especially when Mororola, Sony Ericson and Samsung aren’t yet deeply attached to Android. Given a couple more years they may have had no choice but to stick with Android. As it is they pretty much have to switch platforms (But to which? Maybe a home-grown Linux?).