Android end users are carriers and device manufacturers. It wouldn't make sense for Google to be advertising Android to the consumers. The Open Handset Alliance is the way Android is being developed and marketed.
On the other hand, TMobile must be advertising G1 wherever it sells. If you are not seeing much of G1 ads then TMobile is the one who can answer why that is so. take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz +91-9840348914 http://androidrocks.in - Android Consulting. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:28 AM, hawtseks <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well sorry I don't watch enough TV to catch any Redhat commercials, > also never really seen a full page SUSE ad in the journal. Regardless > of that stupid, made-up factoid I put in there to try to be funny, > Google gets its money from searches, not from android. Furthermore, > what would be the point of advertising something they aren't selling > to consumers? They need to "sell" the OS to phone manufacturers who > will resell it to consumers with the phone. There is no reason for > google to match the huge dollars apple is spending advertising for the > iPhone. It wouldn't make any sense. > > On Feb 7, 8:02 pm, Stone Mirror <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 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. > > > > Er, nonsense. Red Hat, Suse and other all advertise. Maybe it would be > the > > first time anyone tried to advertise 12,000,000 lines of code, tossed > over > > the wall with an open source license wrapped around them... > > > > (This won't make it onto the actual android-discuss list: Dan Morrill > > "moderated" me for having an opinion he didn't enjoy. Some "discussion".) > > > > -- > > 鏡石 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
