Yawn, Google Introduces iPhone Clone

I really hate these arguments. The argument basically comes down to this:<p><pre><code> No one should make *any* smartphones unless they can immediately top the iPhone. If you can't top the iPhone on day one, then just don't bother competing at all. </code></pre> It's one thing to call out hype. It's another thing entirely to say, "X is over-hyped therefore it shouldn't exist."<p>&#62; <i>But it’s still effectively tied to the smallish T-Mobile cell phone network.</i><p>No it's not. So far as I can tell, you can use it on AT&#38;T's network. The only catch is the you can't use AT&#38;T's 3G with it. But this seems to be a one or the other choice. AT&#38;T and T-Mobile apparently use different frequencies for their 3G (T-Mobile's is non-standard), and no one seems to be putting out phone that support both (in my limited research on the topic). This leads me to believe that there must only be chips that support one or the other. In that case, there's no pleasing everyone. If you choose AT&#38;T, you'll piss off a bunch of people, but you'll also piss off a bunch of people if you choose T-Mobile.<p>&#62; <i>And the Nexus One lacks the convenience of being connected to iTunes.</i><p>So... the only phone that will <i>ever</i> appease you will, by definition, need to be an Apple-branded phone.<p>&#62; <i>The Android app store is a fifth the size of Apple’s.</i><p>It's the quality, not the quantity of the apps that matters. Comparing on size alone is useless. There have been a number of articles on the number of crappy and rehashed apps that get poured into the AppStore marketplace by people hoping to use the shotgun approach to AppStore success. And how exactly is Google supposed to remedy this with the launch of a phone? Make the phone iPhone-compatible and hack their way into AppStore access?<p>&#62; <i>Meanwhile, Apple is getting ready to announce an entirely new iteration of its iPhone in three weeks — the tablet — that will likely make every other player in the market look like a laggard — again.</i><p>This is the stupidest thing I have read lately.<p>&#62; <i>Why didn’t Google offer a phone with both a GSM and a CDMA radio that would work on any U.S. cell phone network?</i><p>It's not that simple. See the GSM 3G comments above. I thought that there used to be GSM/CDMA chips. Maybe they were part of that whole Qualcomm lawsuit a few years ago?

A couple of things in that article stood out as particularly flawed:<p>"Meanwhile, Apple is getting ready to announce an entirely new iteration of its iPhone in three weeks — the tablet — that will likely make every other player in the market look like a laggard — again."<p>The tablet is aimed at a different niche than the "mobile phone/mp3 player" space. Very few are going to buy a tablet and ditch their phone.<p>"Why didn’t Google subsidize the Nexus One so it was half the price of an iPhone, instead of the same price?"<p>Perhaps because they like making money?

I'm really really excited to get mine. I've had the 3g Iphone for almost 2 years now, and I cannot wait to stop using it.<p>Maybe its just the developer inside me screaming, but I cannot deal with Apple and how they deal with the guys who are really making the iphone popular -- the programmers.

I guess one just had to make his "counter-article" to the flow of "wow, amazing google phone!!" we see recently.<p>Of course in itself it's pretty much only a rant, with fallacious arguments, but it fulfills its goal of generating a lot of "how can you say that it's stupid" answers.<p>I mean, I even clicked on it just for the sake of the title, like probably many did. Mission accomplished, so, people click and react on it.

Sort of like "Yawn, Microsoft introduces clone of Mac called 'Windows'". But with less evil and more open source.

It's a smartphone. They existed before the iPhone. Even app stores existed before the iPhone - at least in Europe, some companies made millions by selling J2ME apps for "classic phones". They discredited themselves by exploiting gullible teenagers, but still. For all I know, they might still be raking in the big money - they certainly still do TV ads.<p>What exactly makes a phone an iPhone clone?

Gotta admit. I want one, not because I see it better than X, but rather because on it's own it's an awesome phone. I just had hoped that it would be released with a version compatible with AT&#38;T's 3G network. HTC is manufacturing a CDMA capable phone, and do make phones for AT&#38;T so why not produce a second GSM version compatible with AT&#38;T? Unless AT&#38;T works hard to get a very nice android phone soon, I'm likely to switch carriers.