If you ever thought google would be releasing their services exclusively for Android you fundamentally misunderstood their plainly stated intentions for the platform. Their interest in Android is to ensure an open, free market of platforms that their services can run on. If one vendor or another gets a lock on the mobile world, they can start dictating terms to service providers like Google. I think they've been pretty clear about the fact that as far as they are concerned, the more open, thriving platforms the better.
-Josh On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > With announcements like these; > > > http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/02/google-mobile-app-now-available-on.html > > > http://www.iphonebuzz.com/google-demo-offline-gmail-webapp-for-iphone-video-demo-186230.php > > It really is becoming difficult to see how Android can succeed in the > long term. One of it's unique selling points was it's integration with > Google services, and it now seems as though Google themselves are > eroding that, so what are the reasons people think consumers will buy > Android devices over other alternatives? > > Al. > > -- > ====== > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
