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Ouch! Google document proposes giving Motorola time-to-market advantage for Android devices
Here's the text of the highlighted passage:
Do not develop in the open. Instead, make source code available after innovation is complete
- Lead device concept: Give early access to the software to partners who build and distribute devices to our specification (ie, Motorola and Verizon). They get a non-contractual time to market advantage and in return they align to our standard.
Court papers confirm what most people already knew, but what some OEMs (HTC, LG, etc.) were hoping wasn't true. Google intends to give lead time advantage to some hardware makers over others. Yes, the Motorola purchase wasn't just about patents.
Looks like LG is taking a rational approach to an iPad competitor
An LG executive today confirmed that the company's upcoming Optimus Pad would not only be a showcase for Android but was designed from the start to take on the iPad. The 8.9-inch slate should launch in the first quarter of 2011 and will ship with Honeycomb, now widely believed to be the true Android 3.0 build. The software is the "tablet PC" version of Google's OS, LG told MK.
Three things LG is doing that make sense:
- Eschewing the 7" screen size that appears to have been chosen for cost and a limitation of certified screen resolution for Android 2.2. A 9" display is near-iPad size, and could provide much of the benefits while making the device a bit smaller overall.
- Waiting for a tablet OS. Yes, this does assume that Android 3.0 is really for tablets, but that's at least the rumor, whereas we know release 2.2 is not. If nothing else, LG gets points for not releasing something with an OS ill-equipped for the job.
- Calling it an iPad competitor. So many companies are delivering crap and then covering it by saying they're not competing with the iPad. As if that's fooling anybody. Of course you're competing with the iPad. Your hastily launched product wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for the iPad, so stop kidding yourself. Nothing says "we're delivering junk" so much as releasing a product and then begging people not to compare it with the market leader.
No one knows if Android 3.0 will be any good for tablets, or if this LG tablet will have access to the Android Market, or if developers will write "native" tablet apps in 3.0. Further, no one knows if LG's hardware will be any good, or if they'll take advantage of the larger screen, or what kind of price point they'll offer, or what potential data plans partnering with carriers they may use.
In short, way too many question unanswered to know if this thing will be a waste of time or a credible threat. But I believe that by not just throwing something out there now LG is at least taking a more rational approach than anyone else.
Well, except for the name.
Confirmed Windows Phone 7 Devices
Please note that this list is subject to change as more information about the devices is available.
A chart containing rumored and confirmed WP7 devices. Clicking on a phone name provides more detail. There are seven confirmed devices so far.
Apple Crushes Everyone In Cell Phone Customer Satisfaction Ratings
Surveys of consumers' future buying habits mean very little. If consumers did what they said in surveys, products made via those surveys would be raging successes, but they're not. Apple, perhaps famously, eschews such surveys, contending a customer doesn't know what they want until they see it. So even though the future looks great for Apple in the article's surveys, it means little to me.
There is, however, one type of survey that's very important. Customer Satisfaction is not about the future, it's about real people who own the device now, and how happy they are with it. I would argue it's the only survey that really matters. Look at that chart. Apple crushes everyone by such a wide margin the other guys should be revamping their support policies, procedures and staff, not their product lines.
