One feature the iPhone doesn't have

[PCTechNerd]

http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/...years-and.html
This article pointed out google didn't make it a big deal that Android had two fairly big things that the iPhone doesn't: copy&paste and also true multitasking. However, I don't think Google is particularly aiming to challenge the iPhone, even though everyone wants to think that way (esp many articles online). That may be T-mobile's goal for the G1, but not Google. Google just wants more people to use the mobile web, having a phone that can beat or "kill" the iPhone is irrelavant to them because they are giving away the OS for free anyways and they don't get direct money from the phones. They just need the phones to be good enough so that Android can reach customers.

But on the issue of the iPhone, I don't get why they are holding such a hard stance on copy&paste. Is it security? I don't know. Seems like something that should be fairly easy to accomplish by Apple if they wanted it on the phone.

Exactly. Google doesn't want to own the industry, it wants to change the industry for the better.

[tread]

yep... i'd like to think of them as the modern revolutionaries... their work environment, policies with their employees, commercial freedom, etc...

they're breaking all the corporate idiosyncracies to advance not only the world of technology, but the advancement of the world when you think of its effects 20+ years later from now... they've got a real handle on things and some incredible staying power

[rawskilz]

Exactly. Google doesn't want to own the industry, it wants to change the industry for the better.

agreed. but knowing google they also want a piece of the cake. a big piece

[NetCom]

Yea raw - the important thing is that processor architecture posses ability to have video recording (qualcomm)