Will Google’s Nexus be Able to Compete with the iPhone?
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Google is due to announce their new smartphone, the Nexus One, this coming Tuesday. It will be designed to run Google’s Android operating system. Android, which was released over a year ago, was supposed to be revolutionary because it is an open OS that companies can use for free.
Android was meant to compete with the iPhone’s OS in some respects, though that plan hasn’t exactly come to fruition. The iPhone is still enormously popular, likely because of Apple’s continual innovation and risk-taking. The iPhone is a perfect example: it has taken years for competitors to offer something even half as good. The App Store was a revolutionary innovation that has helped secure the iPhone’s dominance.
The only way to offer strong competition to Apple in the smartphone market is to design a phone comparable to the iPhone, but cheaper or with a revolutionary new design. Google could do the latter (the former is unlikely, as their profit margins may already be slim), especially if it designed a smartphone that directly used the Internet for transmission instead of traditional cellular carriers.
We may be disappointed, however. Early reports suggest that Nexus One will be just like the average smartphone, and even if Nexus One is truly new and innovative, it is likely to be overshadowed by Apple’s impending announcement at the end of January.
Via ABC, image via Gizmodo.
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