Re:Google to mobile industry: 'F*** you very much'
by Xichekolas on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @12:21PM
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If the carriers truly feel slighted, what is to stop them from not certifying new Android phones, freezing Google out?
They still must see some value in Android, or they wouldn't all be tripping over themselves to get the Nexus One.
The wrong is to mobile device manufacturers and networks, who were presumably led to believe that they would not be competing directly with Google itself. If they knew now what they knew then, they would have been much less likely to utilize Android. They feel misled.
When competing directly with your partners, it can sometimes be challenging to keep them as partners. But this is nothing new for Google.