On May 3, 9:57 am, "Al Sutton" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had a discussion with someone today who raised the following question
> which made me think the Magic may be in for a rough ride;
>
> He said; "I can see the advantage of a G1, because it has a 'proper'
> keyboard. But what's the advantage of a Magic over an iPhone?".
>
It would be nice if it came down to just one factor. It's combining
the pieces (HW, Android, apps, carrier service, marketing) into a
vision that is executed into definable user experiences while
leveraging the different elements off of each other. Sounds douchy,
but that's where Apple makes everybody else look like amateurs right
now. Hopefully behind closed doors between carriers, handset makers
and Google, these people are pulling into one direction... vertical
integration is coming back folks and Apple will be pulling away even
further, assuming they can maintain leverage over carriers by virtue
of the product and of course they keep pricing on our side of
reality.
So we shall see what the members of the OHA will be able or willing to
demonstrate. At this point the stakeholders seem to staying in their
traditional trenches to a good degree. I'm sure they are more than
literally not speaking the same language, as there's plenty of low
hanging fruit type issues out there.
Pulling T-Mobile out of the hat: What's up with that $35 plan that
stops at 400 messages, IP or not?
Pulling Google out of the hat: What's up with that secretive attitude?
And so on.
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