09-23-2008, 12:10 AM
http://www.forbes.com/2008/09/22/google-...r=yahootix
Google's long anticipated phone OS will be unveiled at a press conference tomorrow (9/23). Everyone keeps saying that it is meant to be an iPhone killer, but I disagree. Google makes their money from ads on webpages. Blackberry's browser is about the best of any non-iPhone cell phone and it sucks. Google recognized that there was WAY more money to be had if they could put the internet in people's hands everywhere. Google LOVES the iPhone. They just think that there is much more potential out there. They created an open-source platform and they're hoping that a bunch of companies adopt it because it will only line Google's pockets with more ad revenue. They waited for RIM, Nokia, Palm or Microsoft to get the mobile browsing thing right, but they all failed miserably. It wasn't until Apple tried that they saw the way forward. They figured they had to do it themselves if they wanted it to go their way. They best way to make history is to invent the future. Imagine how much money they'll make if they start getting revenue from the BILLIONS of phones out there. In 2005 Gartner predicted the mobile phone sales would exceed 1 billion units per year by 2009.* That is in addition to phones already in use, so yes, it is billions of phones that could potentially deliver Google ads. How that is possible I don't know, but I'm guessing that we're close to that.
*http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_132473_11.html
Google's long anticipated phone OS will be unveiled at a press conference tomorrow (9/23). Everyone keeps saying that it is meant to be an iPhone killer, but I disagree. Google makes their money from ads on webpages. Blackberry's browser is about the best of any non-iPhone cell phone and it sucks. Google recognized that there was WAY more money to be had if they could put the internet in people's hands everywhere. Google LOVES the iPhone. They just think that there is much more potential out there. They created an open-source platform and they're hoping that a bunch of companies adopt it because it will only line Google's pockets with more ad revenue. They waited for RIM, Nokia, Palm or Microsoft to get the mobile browsing thing right, but they all failed miserably. It wasn't until Apple tried that they saw the way forward. They figured they had to do it themselves if they wanted it to go their way. They best way to make history is to invent the future. Imagine how much money they'll make if they start getting revenue from the BILLIONS of phones out there. In 2005 Gartner predicted the mobile phone sales would exceed 1 billion units per year by 2009.* That is in addition to phones already in use, so yes, it is billions of phones that could potentially deliver Google ads. How that is possible I don't know, but I'm guessing that we're close to that.
*http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_132473_11.html