Are you happy with the way Google gave you an alternative to the iPhone? If you are, Google is too. So happy in fact, that they won’t be coming out with any kind of follow-up to the Nexus One. Google’s Eric Schmidt confirmed that in an interview last week, basically stating that they came out with the Nexus One to help kick start the whole mobile Android revolution. With the number of ‘droids currently tag-teaming against Apple’s iPhone (like the Droid Incredible, Desire, Evo 4G and the still-upcoming-but-already-sold-out Droid X), Schmidt feels they’ve succeeded. (Quotes from the interview after the cut.)
Here’s what Schmidt said about stopping after the ‘One’:
“The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful, we didn’t have to do a second one. We would view that as positive but people criticised us heavily for that. I called up the board and said: ‘Ok, it worked. Congratulations – we’re stopping’. We like that flexibility, we think that flexibility is characteristic of nimbleness at our scale.”
And about their perceived rivalry with Apple?
“We don’t have a plan to beat Apple, that’s not how we operate. We’re trying to do something different than Apple and the good news is that Apple is making that very easy.”
“The difference between the Apple model and the Google model is easy to understand – they’re completely different. The Google model is completely open. You can basically take the software – it’s free – you can modify whatever you want, you can add any kind of app, you can build any kind of business model on top of it and you can add any kind of hardware. The Apple model is the inverse.”
So there you go. While the fact that they won’t be coming out with something as awesome as the ‘One when it first came out is a downer, it’s completely understandable. They just needed one stud to get things rolling after all, and now we have Droids rolling out with huge 4-inch screens, fast 1GHz processors, 8MP cams, and whatever the Android OS updates into. Not a bad way to go.
Source: Telegraph
Tags: Android, Google, Mobile Phones, Nexus One
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