Both Google and T-Mobile have done a very poor job from a marketing and PR standpoint. 50% of the G1 owners that I know (that would be 6 total, including me) returned their phones in frustration a couple of months ago.
Of course, lots of things have changed--new updates (RC33), new capabilities (voice search, latitude, radio update, etc), and maybe most important of all (so far), a Market with apps that you can pay for. Who knows about those things? Not those folks that already bailed on the phone. And how would anyone find out? Reviews of G1 phones on the web are generally 3 months old or older, when the G1 had LOTS of crazy problems and very incomplete capabilities. The answer is MARKETING. This seems completely foreign to both Google and T-Mobile as everyone watches Apple put out yet another iPhone ad on the TV on their way to 50% market share. On Mar 26, 6:47 am, Christine <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think Google is doing a particularly bad job here, given the > fact that they are a web company, not a product company. I guess they > are going trough a learning curve. > > On Mar 25, 11:55 pm, Eric Friesen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Of course it's not the right thing to do to take it out on JBQ here. I > > think the big complaint is that there is little information flow and > > very little communication coming out of the OHA companies about the > > official direction of Android. As it is now, the only up to date > > information comes in the form of emails on these groups from engineers > > who for the most part are only allowed to say "I can't really comment > > on that". Ultimately if we didn't even have that, and had nothing > > instead, Android would feel that much closer to being vaporware. > > > Ultimately someone with the corporate, political clout needs to take > > interest in rallying the interested parties, keep information and > > updates and teasers of great things to come flowing at a steady pace > > through official channels and relieve the poor Google engineers from > > suffering these kinds of threads. And while we have no real way to > > convey the need for the improved community involvement to the > > appropriate people and we can feel free to gripe to one another here. > > We really shouldn't be insufferable to the few people who are trying > > to do what they can to remedy a bad situation. > > > The public is very excited about the direction of the mobile industry. > > If Apple announcing the future implementation of copy & paste can make > > headline news. Certainly it would not take much for a professional PR > > person with their finger on the pulse of technology enthusiasts and > > the mobile community to generate enormous buzz about Android. > > > -E > > > On Mar 25, 2:43 pm, Sundog <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mar 25, 2:34 pm, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Does google ever intend to treat the developers (who, arguably, will > > > > make or > > > > break the platform) as first class citizens? > > > > Short answer: No, they don't. > > > > Why am I so negative? Because there isn't even any mechanism in place > > > to do so. The very conduit through which this might happen doesn't > > > exist. We are treated to half-finished developer websites, "blogs" > > > that have "NEW UPDATES!" from 6 months ago, and the complete sum of > > > our information is contained in the occasional emails we get from > > > Google. > > > > They simply don't care about us. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
