Comments on: My thoughts on the gPhone http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/18/google-gphone/ escape colon w q Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:40:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: No gPhone, Android and the Open Handset Alliance. http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/18/google-gphone/#comment-6707 No gPhone, Android and the Open Handset Alliance. Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:36:46 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/18/google-gphone/#comment-6707 [...] as I thought, there’s no gPhone. It never made sense, y’know? Instead they’ve announced the [...] [...] as I thought, there’s no gPhone. It never made sense, y’know? Instead they’ve announced the [...]

]]> By: felix http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/18/google-gphone/#comment-6311 felix Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:56:15 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/18/google-gphone/#comment-6311 Michael, you're right, it's true that it could be successful because of it's low cost appeal. But in order for it to be the success that google wants, everyone will have to stop using their many, many existing handsets and move to this new one. If it isn't sexy, as, for example the RAZR was, people won't switch to it. It's giving people functionality that they aren't used to having (given their non-smartphone needs) and may not even know they want. Uptake, as a result, will be slow which is not what G wants. It would seem like a much more efficient and expedient way to provide the software on all the handsets that people are already buying than trying to make a whole new platform. I guess, where I'm disagreeing with you is that it doesn't have to be sexy. I think it does. The market out there for low cost phones is big, but there's a lot of low cost phones. G will need a significant portion of that market to reach scale necessary to push something through, like that wacky sms payment module some people have speculated on and something that isn't sexy, just won't grow quickly enough. Unless they've got some super secret hook, that will make this all add up. :) Michael, you’re right, it’s true that it could be successful because of it’s low cost appeal. But in order for it to be the success that google wants, everyone will have to stop using their many, many existing handsets and move to this new one. If it isn’t sexy, as, for example the RAZR was, people won’t switch to it. It’s giving people functionality that they aren’t used to having (given their non-smartphone needs) and may not even know they want. Uptake, as a result, will be slow which is not what G wants. It would seem like a much more efficient and expedient way to provide the software on all the handsets that people are already buying than trying to make a whole new platform.

I guess, where I’m disagreeing with you is that it doesn’t have to be sexy. I think it does. The market out there for low cost phones is big, but there’s a lot of low cost phones. G will need a significant portion of that market to reach scale necessary to push something through, like that wacky sms payment module some people have speculated on and something that isn’t sexy, just won’t grow quickly enough.

Unless they’ve got some super secret hook, that will make this all add up. :)

]]> By: Michael Natale http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/18/google-gphone/#comment-6306 Michael Natale Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:48:53 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/18/google-gphone/#comment-6306 We'll have to see what it is when (if) it rolls out, but I have to disagree with you that "nobody in the real world remotely cares". Divide the mobile consumer market up into 2 crowds, one that has or might one day want/have an iPhone and the second comprised of everyone else that carries some type of mobile device, but doesn't give 2 craps for Apple's latest piece of brilliance. There's tons of folks in the 2nd group to appeal to. Let's face it, I love Macs and own 2 of them, but the price-point keeps most people away, no matter how good they are. The same goes for the iPhone. The gPhone doesn't have to be better/sexier than the iPhone it just has to be better than everything else out there. I don't think that's too hard to do and that's still a fairly large market. Sure the average Joe/Jane doesn't know jack about the gPhone, but that doesn't mean they won't buy one if it offers them features they want. We’ll have to see what it is when (if) it rolls out, but I have to disagree with you that “nobody in the real world remotely cares”.

Divide the mobile consumer market up into 2 crowds, one that has or might one day want/have an iPhone and the second comprised of everyone else that carries some type of mobile device, but doesn’t give 2 craps for Apple’s latest piece of brilliance.

There’s tons of folks in the 2nd group to appeal to. Let’s face it, I love Macs and own 2 of them, but the price-point keeps most people away, no matter how good they are. The same goes for the iPhone.

The gPhone doesn’t have to be better/sexier than the iPhone it just has to be better than everything else out there. I don’t think that’s too hard to do and that’s still a fairly large market.

Sure the average Joe/Jane doesn’t know jack about the gPhone, but that doesn’t mean they won’t buy one if it offers them features they want.

]]> By: Poyla http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/18/google-gphone/#comment-6302 Poyla Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:13:16 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/18/google-gphone/#comment-6302 Call me when it can make a cup of coffee, if you can figure out how to make a call without opening your garage door or something. Call me when it can make a cup of coffee, if you can figure out how to make a call without opening your garage door or something.

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