Very good point. As a small company that develops mobile apps, it may be a while until the Android will be a profit center for us.
thanks J On Feb 6, 2:59 pm, hawtseks <[email protected]> wrote: > I think if Google ran ads for Android it would be the first time in > history someone tried to advertise an open source project. T-Mobile > released the phone here, they are the ones that should be advertising > it. Google gives the software away for free AND is doing all this > updating and bug fixing and you expect them to run ads for a phone > that doesn't even make any more money for them than the iphone does? > Makes no sense! Google makes money from advertising whether its on a > computer screen or a phone. That meas Google makes money off iPhones, > probably more so than android phones. Its crazy how many people don't > realize this. Android is an OS for mobile phones that currently only > comes on one handset from T-Mobile. T-Mobile is the one selling the > phone, they profit from it, they should run the ads, end of story. > > On Dec 13 2008, 6:11 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
