Linked by Agent Smith on Sun 17th Dec 2006 09:37 UTC
The Observer and GigaOM reveal the Google Phone, a device currently early in development that will integrate many of Google's services in a mobile manner. It is not expected to be released before 2008.
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Some people should think before they open their mouths.
Apple's iChat is integrated with one of the largest IM networks in the world. Last time I checked more people use AIM and ICQ than use Google's chat program.
Granted maps and the searching but Apple has video and television content on iTunes. Honestly I'd rather pass the hour watching Jericho than watching some fat idiot make a fool of himself on YouTube. Didn't Google already have a video service? They had to buy to get something worth having because multimedia isn't as easy as it looks.
Apple also supports a large mail network, .mac, with some several hundreds of thousands of PAYING users. A different model than Google's ad driven systems but even so it is a large and capable network.
The .mac based services would integrate exceptionally well with a phone. Google are UI noobs to be quite frank. They've done a few good things but Apple has decades of experience with the best UIs in the market.
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Some people should think before they open their mouths.
Apple's iChat is integrated with one of the largest IM networks in the world. Last time I checked more people use AIM and ICQ than use Google's chat program.
Granted maps and the searching but Apple has video and television content on iTunes. Honestly I'd rather pass the hour watching Jericho than watching some fat idiot make a fool of himself on YouTube. Didn't Google already have a video service? They had to buy to get something worth having because multimedia isn't as easy as it looks.
Apple also supports a large mail network, .mac, with some several hundreds of thousands of PAYING users. A different model than Google's ad driven systems but even so it is a large and capable network.
The .mac based services would integrate exceptionally well with a phone. Google are UI noobs to be quite frank. They've done a few good things but Apple has decades of experience with the best UIs in the market.