Last week was not all good news for Android: The Senior Product Manager left for Facebook (http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/12/erick- tseng-facebook/), Senior Software Engineer Cedric "TestNG" Beust went to LinkedIn (http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/13/android-senior-software- engineer-cedric-beust-leaves-google-for-linkedin/) and Google stops selling phones (read: the Nexus One) through their web page (http:// bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/google-concedes-defeat-on-selling- nexus-one-direct/).
Now people come and go all the time, but Google not selling phones anymore is significant. In January, Eric Schmidt said "What the Nexus One is really about is a new way of buying a phone." (http:// seekingalpha.com/article/183769-google-inc-q4-2009-earnings-call- transcript?page=-1) Since Google does no evil, this must mean that the current way of buying a phone (subsidized through a carrier) must be bad. But who would have thought that people rather pay $100 for a phone instead of $530 and want to talk to a person that can help them when they have problems with their phones? And who could imagine that the carriers who sell all these other Android phones in their "bad ways" don't like to be called "bad" and don't want to sell this phone? Certainly not the smart people at Google. I wouldn't be surprised if the "Evil Empire" (Apple) was behind all this! Newman! Worst of all: This may be the untimely end of a new device category - "super phone", we hardly knew you (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/ 01/05/google.nexus.announcement/index.html). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
