cloudsourced » mobile http://www.cloudsourced.com #Geomob - Anything geo or mobile Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:18:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Google Doesn’t Want to be an iPhone Killer http://www.cloudsourced.com/2010/01/06/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-iphone-killer/ http://www.cloudsourced.com/2010/01/06/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-iphone-killer/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:46:32 +0000 Chris http://www.cloudsourced.com/2010/01/06/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-iphone-killer/ 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:

http://abovecrowd.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/iphone-market-share.png
[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.

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