Quote to Note: Google, Android, iPhone, and Time
July 16, 2010
Quote to note: Today’s quote to note appeared in “Google: ‘We Did Not Follow Apple into Phone Market.’” The addled goose has no position on this issue. The reason has to do with the meaning of “market”. Google’s patent applications prior to 2008 include what the Colbert Report might call “phone-iness.” However, “market” can mean available to anyone able to reach the counter in an ATT or Apple store and push a pile of money toward the ever efficient clerks. Anyway here’s the quote to note:
“We had been working on Android a very long time, with the notion of producing phones that are Internet enabled and have good browsers and all that because that did not exist in the marketplace. I think that [Steve Jobs’] characterization of us entering after is not really reasonable.”
Now what’s reasonable mean? Telling a country what to do? Rewriting history the way a certain famous Georgian did? Interpreting research as being in a market? See why the goose was such a lousy student. Maybe Apple’s Board of Directors learned about phones from a certain Board member? I just thought it was a “me too” play.
Stephen E Arnold, July 16, 2010
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