Forget iPhone, Think Google Phone
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Google is now a headache for Microsoft...soon for Apple too :) Forget iPhone, Think Google Phone[^]
-Sarath_._ "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin
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Wonderful. cant wait to have all the power of their software at my fingertips... ...(tongue in cheek)... Google Phone with: GMail (still beta in 2008) Google Doc v0.2 Google Pocket Spreadsheet v0.15 Google Charts v0.1 Google Notes v0.01 Google Calendar v0.001 Google Mini Browser v0.0001 Bah. I'll take Google seriously in the software arena when it has the guts (although I'd rather use a part of my anatomy) to release a product with an actually version. The have a good search engine but their software initiatives are all over the map with little cohesiveness or synergy. It's more like... "hmm we need to compete in the drawing market so lets just buy SketchUp." Fair enough, buying a product for a market niche makes alot of sense but currently their applications do not integrate together? Neither in functionality nor User Interface. Perhaps they are working to that goal but it looks to be many many years down the road. Based on Google's track record I think it's far more likely we will see them buying out some carrier/phone supplier before developing their own. David
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Heh. Verizon will make it available on their network - and it'll ship with all features disabled. Then the pay-as-you-go services will roll it out, and it'll cost $.10 a byte for data transfers. Finally Sprint will roll it out on their network, and it'll work perfectly - provided you like to stand very still for long, long periods of time. I'm not holding my breath 'till i see any 3rd-party company doing something interesting with the domestic phone networks. Up to and including providing reliable phone service.
$.10 a byte for data transfers :confused: Steve
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$.10 a byte for data transfers :confused: Steve
Steve Mayfield wrote:
$.10 a byte for data transfers
it may have been a jab at Verizon, which regardless of their commercials claiming a "huge" network, you feel like you are paying for every single one of those people.... it is VERY expensive compared to most cellular phone contracts, and they charge you for everything separate to make it even more expensive. :sigh:
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Wonderful. cant wait to have all the power of their software at my fingertips... ...(tongue in cheek)... Google Phone with: GMail (still beta in 2008) Google Doc v0.2 Google Pocket Spreadsheet v0.15 Google Charts v0.1 Google Notes v0.01 Google Calendar v0.001 Google Mini Browser v0.0001 Bah. I'll take Google seriously in the software arena when it has the guts (although I'd rather use a part of my anatomy) to release a product with an actually version. The have a good search engine but their software initiatives are all over the map with little cohesiveness or synergy. It's more like... "hmm we need to compete in the drawing market so lets just buy SketchUp." Fair enough, buying a product for a market niche makes alot of sense but currently their applications do not integrate together? Neither in functionality nor User Interface. Perhaps they are working to that goal but it looks to be many many years down the road. Based on Google's track record I think it's far more likely we will see them buying out some carrier/phone supplier before developing their own. David
I use GMail and Calendar, they work well together, and have a similar UI, and are by far the best web-based mail and calendaring apps i've used. So they have a different versioning scheme from your standard major.minor.patch model, big deal. It doesn't bother me they are labeled beta, it would bother me (read: I'd stop using them) if they didn't work or were unreliable, or if updates broke them. But they don't so I won't :) I use the pop feature to dump my mail locally just in case, but i've never had to use it. Anyway, maps.google.com is not in beta ;-)
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Heh. Verizon will make it available on their network - and it'll ship with all features disabled. Then the pay-as-you-go services will roll it out, and it'll cost $.10 a byte for data transfers. Finally Sprint will roll it out on their network, and it'll work perfectly - provided you like to stand very still for long, long periods of time. I'm not holding my breath 'till i see any 3rd-party company doing something interesting with the domestic phone networks. Up to and including providing reliable phone service.
I'm still trying to work out why, when I'm in Canada, I can never get a clear line to Australia but when I call from Australia to Canada I get a perfectly clear line 95% of the time. At a cheaper rate. From a reasonably remote island connected to the rest of the world by really, really long peices of string ties to the ends of the cans. Maybe communication to Australia is like a current through a diode. It's one way only.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I use GMail and Calendar, they work well together, and have a similar UI, and are by far the best web-based mail and calendaring apps i've used. So they have a different versioning scheme from your standard major.minor.patch model, big deal. It doesn't bother me they are labeled beta, it would bother me (read: I'd stop using them) if they didn't work or were unreliable, or if updates broke them. But they don't so I won't :) I use the pop feature to dump my mail locally just in case, but i've never had to use it. Anyway, maps.google.com is not in beta ;-)
I agree with you to a certain extent. However few businesses that I know of and certainly all of my clients are not prepared to run their company on beta software for their critical business applications. Basically when a company releases a beta project (no matter how good it may or may not be) that has no foreseeable final release date it sends the message that they do not believe in, nor stand beside, their product 100%. It also makes businesses feel that they have no legal recourse to sue or settle a major software induced disaster as Google can fall back on the "Well it is beta software after all. what did you expect"? It's just lame and pathetic for a company as big as Google is to operate in this fashion on an ongoing basis. David
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Google is now a headache for Microsoft...soon for Apple too :) Forget iPhone, Think Google Phone[^]
-Sarath_._ "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin
My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern
They won't be satisfied until we're all eating Google Flakes for breakfast. Then hop into the Googlemobeel (electric powered car) to go to work, where we boot up the Google thin client desktop computer, and make exclusive use of Google's online apps (which will all still display the word BETA prominently). Then for lunch you'll go to the Google Drive-thru for a salad (also labelled BETA) :laugh:.
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I'm still trying to work out why, when I'm in Canada, I can never get a clear line to Australia but when I call from Australia to Canada I get a perfectly clear line 95% of the time. At a cheaper rate. From a reasonably remote island connected to the rest of the world by really, really long peices of string ties to the ends of the cans. Maybe communication to Australia is like a current through a diode. It's one way only.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
You should try Skype. I've used it now to call my sister's landline in QLD, was surprised to find it ranking among the clearest Int'l calls i've ever made. Even the lag was hardly noticeable. Just... please don't use up all CP's bandwidth Skyping home... ;)
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They won't be satisfied until we're all eating Google Flakes for breakfast. Then hop into the Googlemobeel (electric powered car) to go to work, where we boot up the Google thin client desktop computer, and make exclusive use of Google's online apps (which will all still display the word BETA prominently). Then for lunch you'll go to the Google Drive-thru for a salad (also labelled BETA) :laugh:.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
~ Web SQL Utility - asp.net app to query Access, SQL server, MySQL. Stores history, favourites.