Comments on: Google Phone? Apps Have Me Locked To The iPhone

By: Deidre Liukkonen

Deidre Liukkonen — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:21:46 +0000

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:41:04 +0000

[...] even on the iPhone – which isn’t a computer – it’s the same story. I can’t give up the apps. And then add in the iPhone’s iPod functions, playing back all the music and video stored on [...]

By: Promotional Merchandise

Promotional Merchandise — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:40:41 +0000

The apps are created by independent developers that would have to be wooed over to the Google platform. Google’s UI design is not their strong suit.

By: jcieplinski

jcieplinski — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:44:12 +0000

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.