Re:John Gruber: I'll Tell You What's Fair
by stcredzero on Wednesday June 16, 2010 @10:34AM
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it wasn't to knock off Apple, it's because Google is building what consumers want and demand now
In retrospect, doesn't it seem like Google should have emphasized the original Android phones and gone after Blackberry's market share? I think Google wants more corporate mindshare. The part of the world's data that both badly needs organization and has big flows of money associated with it is in the hands of big corporations.
By differentiating themselves as the "business-oriented" smartphone, they could have eaten Blackberry's lunch or scared them into partnership while still chipping away at Apple with the Multitouch phones.
Then again, consumer demand is perhaps the way for newcomers to enter the corporate market.
In retrospect, doesn't it seem like Google should have emphasized the original Android phones and gone after Blackberry's market share? I think Google wants more corporate mindshare. The part of the world's data that both badly needs organization and has big flows of money associated with it is in the hands of big corporations.
By differentiating themselves as the "business-oriented" smartphone, they could have eaten Blackberry's lunch or scared them into partnership while still chipping away at Apple with the Multitouch phones.
Then again, consumer demand is perhaps the way for newcomers to enter the corporate market.