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The Opposite of I is G

What’s the next “mythical” creature after the long rumored and now VERY present iPhone?

It appears that the Google “gPhone” will soon be upon us. It also looks like the gPhone will take a much different approach than the iPhone’s AT&T “walled garden” approach with hardware and network. According to some rumors, the gPhone will not be a single hardware platform ( ...but may very well take that form to start... ), but rather a software/operating system approach that will be an open linux based solution that can run on many different handsets and many different networks.

Hmmm… This sounds a lot like different approaches of IBM and Microsoft in the early days of PCs. However, I’m guessing that Steve Jobs is smarter than the guy at IBM who said:

“Go ahead and have the operating system Bill…. The hardware is where it’s at….”

NOTE - I think that IBM executive is remembered in the same breathe with Alan Ladd - the guy who told George Lucas that 20th Century Fox didn’t need or want the merchandising rights to Star Wars…

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  Posted by jmyers on October 24, 2007 8:00 AM |

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