Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Barcelona: Google vs Apple continues in cellphone space

Just as we were discussing how far can google go with Android, they have released a new phone to carry google's operating system. I think Apple has a lot to think about now. Google is attacking Apple's cellphone market with this and itunes market by trying to make youtube downloadable.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/ptech/02/17/cellphone.google.android.vodafone/index.html?iref=nextin

At the end one user talks about swapping iPhone for this latest phone....warning for Apple?? What do you think....

One concern is about data usage by google. Sometimes it just scares me, google has tons of data about each one of us and on top of that if they now have our cell phone records/data as well then......well it can be very constructive (use BI on all google related accounts of a user to offer related and useful content thus improving user experience) or it can raise very serious privacy concerns....

1 comment:

  1. I definitely think we will see an expansion in the Android world. There is even now a for-pay marketplace (Apple Appstore-like) that has begun to expand. Developers are making Office document manipulation tools and more and it is starting to grow:

    http://www.android.com/market/

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