Android has been under a lot of heat lately from some of the leading mobile companies such as Sprint. Google’s Android platform seems to be an open target for negativity. Microsoft has jumped on the bandwagon with reports that they find Android to be financially unsound.
The other day Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, spoke at Australian telecoms company Telstra’s annual investment day, he was quick to dismiss Google all together saying, “They can hire smart guys, hire a lot of people… but, you know, they start out way behind in a certain sense.” This comes as a surprise to me as Google has continued to outshine Microsoft in the past, overcoming them on many top ten lists.
Ballmer questioned Google’s ability to make money from this mobile platform as he went on to say, “I don’t really understand their strategy. Maybe somebody else does. If I went to my shareholder meeting, my analyst meeting, and said: ‘Hey, we’ve just launched a new product that has no revenue model!’… I’m not sure that my investors would take that very well. But that’s kind of what Google’s telling their investors about Android,”
In a perfect world for large companies such as Microsoft, making money is all that really matters in the end. What they don’t realize is that open source is not about raking in the money, it is about creating something and then allowing others to partake of it as they see fit. Google is getting many more search hits with the integration of search in Android. Ballmer argues that Google’s Android is doing well for its first generation of phones, but when it comes down to it, how will it do in the third and fourth generations? We want to know what you think about the comments made by the CEO of Microsoft, dismissing Android yet again.
[Via ZDNet]
i imagine windows only idea when making windows mobile was "hey, lets make an os with bare bones windows functionality so we can throw it in a phone and cash in on the smartphone market" cause the windows mobile phone i have is by far the worst phone ive ever owned. its ungodly slow even for the most basic functions (it takes literally 5-6 minutes to start up) accessing basic phone menus is unnecessarily complicated, and it freezes up. constantly.
this is easily their 3rd or 4th generation and theyve done nearly nothing to improve the basic user experience (as ive used some of the first windows mobile phones as well).
really they should be ****ting bricks over androids 3rd or 4th gen...
Hotmail. when's the last time you checked your hotmail...
Xbox 360. no comment.
Windows mobile. LAGGY, SLOW,
The Zune. lol?
these are just things that come to my head
when i think Microsoft of course they don't like
the G1, they don't like everything that's free,
they don't like the ps3, they don't like anything
but guess what no one cares, cause windows mobile is
already out and they had there chance to make something good
the truth of the matter is, that android is really good
AND microsoft if this makes there investors feel better
i bought the g1, and got one for everyone in my company
you can say what you want Microsoft i already know how you work.
Mircosoft....."Hi hater, what's happening...get at me!!!!"
I don't even know why he talking.... besides a few minor issues microsoft doesn't have a compeiting device... people still have to search the net for hacks and mods and halfof them vcould brick ya ****
Suck a fat one microsoft, stop using google search if u don't like em...
Market share loss...
All of these companies have something to lose if Android does well... Microsoft already lost a lot of ground due to Google's advances...
Sprint has too much invested in another platform... making it a dwindling... company... if they step forward with android...
Verizon... just haters... lol....
Money talks... when it walks away... these companies... crawl on their hands and knees to get it back... so.. sad... so... sad...
I have a 1 yr contract and I cant wait for the g2 or whatever phone is coming out, because I will probably get that one too...
Market share loss...
All of these companies have something to lose if Android does well... Microsoft already lost a lot of ground due to Google's advances...
Sprint has too much invested in another platform... making it a dwindling... company... if they step forward with android...
Verizon... just haters... lol....
Money talks... when it walks away... these companies... crawl on their hands and knees to get it back... so.. sad... so... sad...
Just remember Google is a content provider, they dont make things such as gaming systems and music devices. Google has services such as search, adds, and now Android that is not only an operating system for moble phones, but will branch off into computers and even cars in the future, Just to name a few ways Google is putting a crunch on Microsoft.
I know you must protect your product, your very existence depends on it. I know you're just doing your job... dis it now while you can and try to slow the process, but like life, the process shall prevail. Any good marketing person knows that.
How will it make money, you Mr. Ballmer, can probably come up with 2 dozen different ways to exploit Android. A pretty stable OS out the gate, remember Win-Mo v1... Not so stable was it.... Android has a really good start and people are excited, You can't buy that kind of press.
Bring people in with free apps in the beginning, establish a market then add premium apps at a cost, give your developers a real chance to make some decent money off their labor (Hint: Steve Jobs). Give the consumer an abundance of cool apps and a platform to freely exploit, they'll come running...
Establish the OS on phones across the the board, bring more people to your advertising base.
There is a strategy but it's built for the long term, kind of like this country where freedom and capitalism can co-exist to built something from a small garage based idea to a multi-billion biz... Kind of like...er a Microsoft... (Green blinking cursor)
Oh, don't forget your roots.... Where's a young Bill Gates when you need him...
2 Cents..... properly used can accumulate to millions...
Bratman
XBox had some severe hardware issues. New ones work perfectly fine. PS1 and PS2 also had some hardware problems. Remember the warping lenses on the PS1? Maybe not to the scale of the XBox, but, Microsoft replaced them and I'm satisfied with my 360.
This is definitely just some comments made to downplay Android. They aren't going to admit they're worried. Investors don't want to hear that.
When the second gen google phone comes out people WILL have to shut their mouths the best part will be us getting to see their faces lol.
I guess some people put out everything as it costs money for everything and the Android comes out and offers a bunch of free stuff off the bat which gets its users addicted like its crack.
Hey I'm game for the crack.
You bring up one of the most valid points I have read on this forum. Its all taken in the way you read it, Sprint said its not good enough the way it is, and AT&T is watching it and waiting for it to open up to more non-Google apps, that is not the OS itself it is the direction that developers are taking it. I take it as AT&T is ready to go when "users want it", and Sprint wants a lot of the OS to change to fit their needs. AT&T has said not much beyond the applications, while sprint thinks it is not good enough for a the Sprint name. It makes me wonder if they think their feature phones OS is any better.
It is my firm belief that Sprint will stay away until they can take control and change to OS to something of their own rather than Android itself. I see even with Windows Mobile they have stepped in and taken over whatever they can.
Those who live in glass houses should not throw rocks!!!
That's all I have to say...
lol jk
bt wow i love these !
thy jus wnt stop puttn google in the spotlight .
Did I really just read a sentence that referred to Sprint as a leading mobile company? Sprint? Leading in terms of most dropped calls, terrible coverage, and the worst customer support that money can buy maybe.
That line made me laugh.
Give it time. When Android is on every type phone imaginable, he'll change his tune. I don't think the iPhone is a novelty anymore.
Ballmer will waste his Energy guarding Financial Decision but will not care that iPhone and GPhone is Killing Windows mobile and making Windows Mobile Division financially weak