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Google's mobile OS - True?

Zmmyt

Zmmyt

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nytimes

wonder what comes out of all this.

nytimes said:
For more than two years, a large group of engineers at Google has been working in secret on a mobile phone project. As word about their efforts has trickled out, expectations in the tech world for what has been called the Google phone, or GPhone, have risen, the way they do for Apple loyalists ahead of a speech by Steven P. Jobs....
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TheQuestion said:
Yes, a danger to be certain. Am I one of a few people who would rather see a friendly rivalry and competition rather than a Google/Apple merger?
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i think you are. i would rather see apple and google working together more....but not a merger though
 
I don't know if Google has the clout to pull of what they want. They want to neutralize the amount of control the carriers have over the operating system of the phone. It's one thing to make your own phone and offer it to a carrier but it's another to simply offer an operating system.

I don't see it affecting Apple who has the lock on the hardware and software and has one of Google's founders on its board of directors.
 
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