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Nexus One

Why the “customer” for Android is advertisers (and why it doesn’t matter)

January 4, 2012

Gruber: It is that the consumer is Google’s product. Android is a delivery system to serve the consumer to Google’s target market — the advertisers. So Google’s customer for Android is not the consumer (with the arguable exception of the Nexus phones), but rather the carriers. He’s right, and he’s wrong. It’s a bit like [...]

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WiFi tethering and the iPhone: Battery life?

January 12, 2011

John Brownlee at CoM: “It seems likely, then, that as soon as the Verizon iPhone comes out, Apple will pump an official iOS update for all devices down the pipeline, bringing the Hotspot app to all devices, including iPads. Naturally, the carriers probably have some control over how a subscriber can use that Hotspot app [...]

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HTC Bravo head-to-head with Google Nexus One?

February 8, 2010
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When I predicted that Google wouldn’t launch its own phone, one of the reasons I believed it was unlikely was that everything pointed to it being a rebadged HTC Bravo (otherwise known as the HTC Passion). While I was wrong about Google launching its own phone, I was right about the rebadge job – and [...]

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Google finds out retailing is harder than it looks

January 11, 2010

It looks like Google is finding out that being a retailer selling hardware is a bit harder than it looks: “Google is being inundated with complaints about its Nexus One phone. The touchscreen smartphone was launched on 5 January and can be bought direct from Google and used on almost any phone network. But confusion [...]

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Fred Wilson’s brave mobile experiment

January 11, 2010

Fred Wilson did something brave: he dictated a blog post using the voice recognition system on his Nexus One, and posted the unedited results. It was, to say the least, less than stellar: “I am dictating this blog post via my google phone. I’m doing its name is a test to see how easy it [...]

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Idiot post of the day – The Roundup

January 6, 2010

I’ll keep updating this one as and when they come in. And boy, are they coming in. With the honourable exception of David Pogue, everyone seems to have lost all their critical faculties, journalistic skills, and in some cases basic ability to write English sentences which parse. First up, Max Tatton-Brown, in his post entitled [...]

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Idiot post of the day (The Return of TechCrunch edition)

January 6, 2010

OK, I wasn’t going to do this. Even I had got bored. But MG Siegler’s post on how “Apple and Google just tag teamed the US Carriers” is just breathtakingly stupid. MG, I know that you’re desperate to justify your earlier breathless hyping of the Nexus One, but seriously – contradicting yourself in the same [...]

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Google’s “business strategy” versus Apple’s actual, real business

January 5, 2010

If you ever wanted to read something which almost perfectly encapsulates the utter lack of business reality endemic in new media, Kim-Mai Cutler’s post on the Nexus One is it. In particular, this sentence: “Overall, incrementalism seems to be working for Google. A couple stats released today bear out evidence of that success.” Success? What [...]

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Tech rumours and wish fulfilment: The Google Phone and the Apple Tablet

January 3, 2010

There’s always been a hype-cycle, particularly with products from Apple, but something I’ve noticed recently is how the hype-cycle has changed into a world of fantasy. The two best examples of this lately are the Google Nexus One and (apparently forthcoming) Apple Tablet. You see a simple pattern: In blog posts and forums the hype [...]

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