Google creates voice recognition for iPhone!

[al74]

You guys have to know by now I'm a BIG supporter of this phone. But this crap is making me kinda sad...

If the iphone IS bigger and more important to GOOGLE than Android... buying this phone will have been a mistake. This is the first time I've conceded this possibility. But I feel it 100%. Google can't just keep pushing out innovations for the iphone and leave us with nothing but a couple of mysterious builds that just fix bugs. I know the phone just came out, but they've been working on Android for a LONG time.

I somewhat agree.

Although I understand the need for Google to support a product like the iPhone, Android is a competeing platform that has been created and supoorted by Google, and I bought my phone under the assumption that Google will support the platform better than other platforms. I don't mind developing apps and solutions for the iphone market but it seems strange that many Google developments, such as this and the Google Earth come first to the iphone rather than the G1.

[Lukster]

Google is universal - Not a, 'opurtunity turner downer' company, as we should all know!

Google had plans in the beginning for fully functional VR in an interview some time way back on its first phone to come. In fact, It was its most hopefull special feature along with flv streaming. It comes as no surprise that the iphone, knowing that this platform would be a competitor, had a better shot at executing such a task being they are more of a established platform. .
They have had plenty of time, but as for google's g1. I think they tried to do too much in too little time.

sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software

This doesnt means its iphones.. It's googles for iphone, so if you cant make it work on yourown yet (got to be a reason) ... why not make yourself some mulah and get it where you can.

[al74]

Google is universal - Not a, 'opurtunity turner downer' company, as we should all know!

Google had plans in the beginning for fully functional VR in an interview some time way back on its first phone to come. In fact, It was its most hopefull special feature along with flv streaming. It comes as no surprise that the iphone, knowing that this platform would be a competitor, had a better shot at executing such a task being they are more of a established platform. .
They have had plenty of time, but as for google's g1. I think they tried to do too much in too little time.
This doesnt means its iphones.. It's googles for iphone, so if you cant make it work on yourown yet (got to be a reason) ... why not make yourself some mulah and get it where you can.

I disagree. The Android was on the table for more than 3 years now so they should have planned to port the technology to this platform. I think it is legitimate to expect Google's mobile apps to appear on their own platform before, or at least at the same time with competing platforms.

Would you imagine Apple comming out with a new mobile version of iTunes to the G1 or Blackberry before the iPhone? Next thing we know iPhone will have a Chrome browser before the G1.

[Fare]

I disagree. The Android was on the table for more than 3 years now so they should have planned to port the technology to this platform. I think it is legitimate to expect Google's mobile apps to appear on their own platform before, or at least at the same time with competing platforms.

I would agree with you, if android was as old as the platforms in which these other apps are being made for.

Who knows how long this has been in development for the iPhone/etc? Should the google iPhone developers stop/delay a product simply because it hasn't been released on the native platform?

well, going to backpedal here and say that would have been my decision...but i'm not google

[Gigaflop]

I agree, this is starting to depress me. I mean, I love the G1 and all the promise behind it, but when the company that wrote the OS behind it, supports other OSes before their own, that makes you wonder if they have any faith in their own product.

At the very least stuff should be released simultaneously. How or why it comes out for competitors first, and not at all on their own platform is disconcerting.

First Google Earth, now Voice Recognition. And I still can't even save my MMS picts, or get my calendar to sync right.

[kizer]

Are you guys nuts? How big is google? For years its been all about the search engine wars. Now its about advertising Revenue.

Google spreading its wings a little is what big business does. The Andriod Os I'm pretty sure isn't its primary concern, but I bet there is a HUGE team out there that does.

[Lukster]

I disagree. The Android was on the table for more than 3 years now so they should have planned to port the technology to this platform. I think it is legitimate to expect Google's mobile apps to appear on their own platform before, or at least at the same time with competing platforms.

Would you imagine Apple comming out with a new mobile version of iTunes to the G1 or Blackberry before the iPhone? Next thing we know iPhone will have a Chrome browser before the G1.

I dont think google is going to forget who they are. BTW what is google? and remembering what kind of company google is, it wil make it much clearer to understand how ok it is for them to provide services to others as they've been doing. It wil come to the gphones, but def not overnight and it def will not be by landlocking you markets for services in trade to serve yourself first and mak profit of others after. Think in terms the income will inject more money into android/google, so cheers. Drink to the iphone saps.

[Gigaflop]

Honestly, I don't care what google is or why they do what they do. What I want to know is, will google support their OS as much as others, or did I just buy into a 2 year contract for a dead end OS that will receive less support than other options I had at the time?

This isn't about "oh, but think about it from Google's perspective." This is me. The consumer. The one wondering why is it that the other phone I considered upgrading to is getting all the updates that I had expected to come out for this phone.

If google is sending the message that I should have gotten an iphone, then why the heck did I get the G1?

[djdlite512]

The old saying says if a dog can't bark for his own backyard, what good is he?

Wow, Google...you cut the Android platform deep with this one.

[Tunster]

I agree totally. If we do not get an important update or a good free Google app in the next 6 months I will lose faith in the Android platform.

Going back to this post... why talk rubbish? Why does everyone want to compare the the G1 to the iPhone?

I don't want my phone to become a fashion accessory like the iPhone thank-you very much. As much I respect the iPhone in many ways, Android has to take a different approach rathering than pleasing people who only care about how a phone looks/and what it does apart from texting/phoning.

Sheeeesh....