The Google Phone Is Doomed or...

November 6, 2007 from PC Magazine – “Google finally announced that it would release something it calls the Open Handset Alliance, and 34 companies are already on board! This is the Google phone initiative we've been hearing about. The Google phone is coming!

Over the years, I've noticed that any company, anytime it wants, can now get dozens of other companies to agree to become a so-called strategic partner. This is done only to save the cost of postage for the strategic partner, who gets some lame press release distributed for free.

When I see a bunch of joiners jumping on some unknown, unreleased unfinished pipe dream, I actually laugh.”

180 View – On November 5, 2007, The New York Times hyped “What Apple began with its iPhone, Google is hoping to accelerate, with an ambitious plan to transform the software at the heart of cellphones. The personal computer is climbing off its desktop perch and hopping into the pockets of millions of people. The resulting merger of computing and communications is likely to revolutionize the telecommunications industry as thoroughly as the PC changed the computing world in the early 1980s.”

Isn’t it great to get such diverse opinions about the same thing?