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I’m proud of the UK tech community, but we need to sell ourselves better. Indeed, I took particular offence during yesterday’s Nexus One launch:

“Is this an iPhone killer?”

Lazy, ill-informed journalism. (And that’s before he’s even written the article).

So lets make it really simple with a nice chart. Why Google doesn’t want Nexus One to be an iPhone killer:

[chart stolen from http://abovethecrowd.com/2010/01/05/android-or-iphone-wrong-question/ ]

Google’s mobile strategy has always been a mass market, platform play. If you’re going to make lazy comparisons, compare them to Microsoft not Apple.

Whilst hoboing around California, I happened to be in a certain top-secret location.

The Japanese have not been so keen on the whole Google Street View phenomenon. Apparently, the cameras are too high for Japanese buildings/streets, and are peering into people’s gardens etc.

So the ingenius answer is? Yes, a lower camera -