7. The Googlephone arriveth.
The iPhone’s presumptive archrival debuted in purchasable form when T-Mobile started selling the G1, the first phone based on Google’s open-source Android operating system. The critical reception? Promising OS with some holes, blah hardware. Google’s strategy is the flipside of Apple’s tight control over the iPhone experience: It wants to see lots of different Googlephones from multiple companies. So the only grade you can give Android based on the G1 alone is this one: Incomplete.
December 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Good job, but I you seem to be applauding Apple too much (don’t worry, engadget does it too…but unlike with you people make fun of them!). I mean, Steve Jobs not doing the Mac Expo isn’t THAT huge of a story…Microsoft’s ad campaign and XP’s refusal to die (ironically both Microsoft stories) had more buzz than Jobs not doing the Expo.
Relyt
December 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Nice work – although I almost agree with Relyt… a bit too much Appletalk for us old school Microsoft geeks who are too stuck in our way to move to Apple. I wonder what the stories of 2009 will be – my guess is that electronic medical records and personal health records will be up there!
February 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Nice work
February 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Relyt Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Good job, but I you seem to be applauding Apple too much (don’t worry, engadget does it too…but unlike with you people make fun of them!). I mean, Steve Jobs not doing the Mac Expo isn’t THAT huge of a story…Microsoft’s ad campaign and XP’s refusal to die (ironically both Microsoft stories) had more buzz than Jobs not doing the Expo.
Relyt
February 10th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
i work in the cellphone industry so with my perspective, its pretty near impossible to overemphasize the impact the i-phone has had.