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2009-11-09 , 01:28
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#52
Originally Posted by c0rt3x View Post
First off, Google's Android was created as an Iphone competitor in the first place - it wasn't made to be the best mobile Linux distro availible, or anything else like that for that matter. But Google had to keep a certain potential for the platform, due their later planes for the mobile market... the 480x320 resolution cap (which "happened" to be the same as the Iphone, what a coincidence!), the Qualcomm 528 MHz CPU requirement (again, almost the same as the first Iphones)...
Android and Chrome OS - but they both have the same reason of existance (goal): to make users always connected to the web - or more specificly - to make everyone always being connected to Google's information database.
As to Android and G1 being made to compete with the iPhone - any phone that comes out is deemed to be made to compete with the iPhone. This is merely the Steve Jobs reality distortion field extending to most blog writers. The G1 was very unlike the iPhone, it has a slide-out QWERTY, hard buttons, and wasn't a soap-bar without protrusions. Yeah, it had the same processor, but that is because manufacturers have a limited field to choose from - notice that the latest high-end smartphones out now will most-likely have the OMAP 3430.

As for Google wanting everyone to be always connected to their cloud - what company doesn't want a captive audience? The Google model is to have the information store in the cloud, which is a great idea for a lot of applications. You get the most reliable service wherever you can connect to the internet. Doesn't work for some applications, but it's a good model. Google gets to index your data in return so they can serve ads (unless you pay for Google Apps Premier Edition). That's their model. You may like the Blackberry push-email model better. Or the no-model iPhone. Your choice. Nothing evil about it.