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Google Phone? Apps Have Me Locked To The iPhone

November 18th, 2009

Rumors are starting regarding an imminent uber-Google phone coming in 2010. Sure, I’m interested, but the odds of personally giving up the iPhone and switching to another phone at this point are about zero plus zero, times zero, with some zero sprinkled on top.

The reason? Should be obvious to anyone with an iPhone: apps.

It isn’t any specific one 203 iPhone apps I’ve downloaded, but it’s a particular combination of personal “must have” apps that I can’t give up right now:

Consider that some of these apps are created by independent developers that would have to be wooed over to the Google platform. Then consider how every iPhone user has their own personal list of apps. You’re probably looking at my list and wondering what the hell Peggle is doing on there while you’re addicted to geoDefense. And how this list shuffles with every new app I download, essentially on a monthly if not weekly basis.

It’s as if every iPhone user who downloads apps is creating their own personal combination for their iPhone lock-in situation.

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  • jcieplinski
    I think Apple learned from Microsoft the power of locking users in with applications. I couldn't agree with you more; no matter how much of a pain AT&T may have been over the last year, leaving the iPhone platform is simply unthinkable.

    "There's an app for that." Apple knew a long time ago where to focus the marketing.

    And if Google's phone is anything like the Droid, I'm not interested, anyway. Google doesn't exactly have a reputation for good design. Google's UI design is not their strong suit. They're a company of PhD geeks and engineers. They don't have the marketing sense to design a phone on the level of the iPhone, as far as form and function are concerned. Not to mention that they have no experience in hardware design whatsoever.

    This is all assuming that the rumors are even true. I actually think it would be a terrible move for Google. What did developing their own hardware ever do for Microsoft? Remember, the Zune didn't kill the iPod. It killed all the other non-iPods. Would a Google phone kill the iPhone, or just kill all the other Android phones? It's a crappy way to treat your partners.
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