Personally I'd say it's not ready for mass consumer thrashing so they should hold back on any big PR push.
With the software shipped on the G1 I'd like to see; - Marketplace out of beta, serving paid-for apps, and with a comments system you wouldn't think twice about showing your children (or just replace it with the AndAppStore client ;)) - An Email client which can handle IMAP nested folders (or replaced with K9 with nested IMAP folders). - A browser with Flash support (which could be turned off by the user of course) - a PDF reader of some kind included Once these are in place it would be worth ramping up the PR, because the last three are considered pretty much de-facto standard functionality for a phone costing this much. Al. Dashesy wrote: > Lets not forget that Google did not sell much hardware platforms > before. We are talking about the average people without good knowledge > of tech and internet. This type of product may needs different > marketing, and I think more TV ads. > > On Dec 16, 4:56 pm, dishragwhore <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I disagree. Google has managed to get a pretty effective viral >> marketing campaign going. I've had at least half a dozen people ask >> me if my phone was "the new googlephone" while using it in a public >> place. They're curious about it and want to know if I like it. >> >> Google has never used mainstream marketing gimmicks to sell their >> products. They've never had to, because the water cooler does their >> advertising for them. >> >> On Dec 15, 5:56 pm, "Matthew LeMieux" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> I urge you not to think about a G1 vs iPhone competition. Even more >>> exciting than counting the number of G1 handsets sold is to see the number >>> of markets and carriers that will be offering other handsets running >>> Android. Be patient. >>> >>> -Matthew >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Androidakin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Android is a great platform but if Google doesn't get more behind >>>> promoting is it will go away as other OS in the past. Have you seen >>>> the full page ads that Apple is running in the WSJ. We all need a >>>> ecommerce market that on both the phone and the web. They need to get >>>> behind it with advertising also. Did you notice the lack of lines at >>>> the T-mobile stores when the phone came out. Many people that I talk >>>> to do not even know that Google has a phone. >>>> >>>> As a developer that made the choice to go with Google instead of >>>> Apple, I am concern. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> > > > -- ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
