“The company’s Vic Gundotra said Android was necessary as, without it, too much control would be put into the hands of Steve Jobs and the iPhone platform,” Electronista reports. “Gundotra didn’t mention Jobs by name but left little mystery that he was being blamed for creating a dystopic mobile environment not unlike the ‘1984’ Apple once criticized. ‘If we did not act, we faced a draconian future where one man, one phone, one carrier was the future,’ he said. ‘That’s a future we don’t want.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Because then we wouldn’t be able to run our ads on it; especially as mobile device users seem predisposed to chose to use dedicated apps over random Web search.
Electronista reports, “Direct jabs at Apple were also strewn throughout the keynote, pointing out either policy or technical limitations in the iPhone and iPad that Android 2.2 would overcome.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We’ve used Android phones. They’re all poor imitations of an iPhone. Using an Android phone after you’ve used an iPhone is both frustrating and humorous. The day Apple flips the switch on Verizon, is the day Google dreads. In countries where iPhone is available on multiple carriers, people don’t settle for Android-based fake iPhones.
Remember when people thought Google was innovative?
“Do no evil”
Hum!?
Sounds like the “The Ministry of Peace” I. The very “1984” they reference in their keynote. LOL!
The only reason Google doesn’t want the “one man, one phone, one carrier” future was because they wouldn’t be the one search engine everyone was using.
Sure, Google wants “many men, many phones, many carriers” all using Google search.
Choice is always good for competition in a market, but sometimes a company or product dominates for the right reason: it is superior to the other options.
Is that why Google choose to build on top of others’ pioneering work, like Webkit?
So Google claims, in hindsight, to have foreseen that the iPhone was the future?
This is getting interesting. Googles building alliances with eveyone to try and stop the Apple jaugernaut. Apple had a big bulls eye on it.
Oh my — they did the whole Android thing as a benevolent gesture! WOW — how can anyone dislike Google after they acted so unselfish? All of you naysayers should be ashamed. Okay, granted, Google gave the world a POS so we had an alternative to Apple, but what is important is why they did it! Purely out of love!
Google likes openness and freedom, as long as you use only the Google platform.
Notice how M$ is regulated to footnote status. They are irrelevent at this point. It’s all Apple vs. Giggle now. Chairs be a flyin’.
Good advertising for Apple, especially after that demo they gave.
Competition is good. Apple will need to drive innovation even harder now.
But Giggle IS the new M$ and draconian practices are truly thriving with them.
As it turns out Android was created to prevent Microsoft, a THEN direct competitor, from owning mobile and locking out Google. Instead they picked a fight with the industry’s lead innovator, and it’s turning into a lose-lose. Apple needs to settle with inferior search (likely Bing) to compete and Google needs to settle for inferior hardware, not to mention untold R&D;expenses.
What gets me is Google just watched Microsoft fail at the many phones, many models, many carriers, many sizes, many UIs and many shapes and now they’re trying the same thing and expecting different results.
Japan is 72% iPhone! I don’t know what scraps were left to Android.
Shitcan google & adobe. Get on with life. Be happy!
Google made Android to make money. If you believe anything else, you’re foolish.
And Google created one ring, to rule them all…
Yeah, that “draconian future” where everything just works perfectly & simply & elegantly. I think I like that future.
Google is sooo open and loving…
Yeah right, try coding some search/index software that comes even close to one of their literally hundreds of search patents and they will slap you with a “loving and open” patent violation lawsuit before you can say googolplex.
google looooves open source as long as it shadows other companies patents & inventions and not their own. Kinda like adobe, total hypocrites.
Do no harm, what a crock
Interesting how it’s now Apple against the world!
That basically sums up the problem with Android. It wasn’t created to give customers a better experience and therefore better choice. It wasn’t created to be the best; it was created to prevent Apple from being dominant.
Apple motivation – Let’s create the best possible user experience in order to profit from selling more hardware.
Google motivation – Let’s block Apple so that we can profit from advertising and collecting user data more effectively.
Which do you think is better for customers? The basic motivations of each company should make the answer self-evident.
Android is only having a modicum if success here in the USA because they are available on the Verizon network and because of the 2-for-1 offer. Once iPhone is on Verizon, Android will lose its appeal.
BTW, don’t get suckered into thinking that Android is “open” — sure anyone can download the source and use it, but if you want Android Market or the tech to handle cellular radios and other chips, you need Google’s blessing — and that means do what Google wants to your device. It’s “free” but not much more open than any other cell phone OS.
auramac:
More like the Apple the world against change and Apple.
scuse it again:
More like the world against change and Apple.
Why would it be that everyone would use Apple? Even if they are incredibly successful, they will only control their own products.
Good for (greedy and understandably-PR-dishonest-like-Jobs’s-no-need-for-video-iPod) Google. Bring on the competition. But please Google, get better fast–I can’t wait to see what Apple will do to stay ahead of you.