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Google contradicts self, confirms own Googlephone

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Why now? Google has created channel conflict

The timing of all of this is curious, though. Droid just launched, and both Verizon and Motorola have made a pretty significant bet on Android.

To have the Google phone drop smack in the middle of Christmas buying season, certainly risks customers holding off on Droid, and waiting to see what Google will come out with for Verizon. Needless to say, the risk of that scenario playing out can't make either Verizon or Motorola too happy right now.

More to the point, when you position yourself as a platform for handset makers and carriers, and then turn tail and compete with them so early in the ecosystem seeding process, that has to be a wake up call that maybe the enemy of my enemy (Apple) is not my friend after all.

The reasoning that Google may feel that they need to put destiny into their own hands RIGHT NOW is something that I blogged about in:

Android’s ‘Inevitability’ and the Missing Leg

http://bit.ly/87URNI

Check it out, if interested.

Mark

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iPhone apps top 100,000

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Phone’s 100K Apps is the New '7-Minute Abs'

My personal belief at this point is that the 100K App milestone is the point when Apple should shift tactics and focus on something more meaningful than mere quantity, as subsequent numbers become less and less impactful, and we get it, "There's an App for That."

Otherwise, the 'magic' starts to become clinical and cold, which is very un-Apple-like, something that I blogged about in:

iPhone’s 100K Apps is the New '7-Minute Abs'

http://bit.ly/rJkEC

Check it out, if interested.

Mark

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Apple tablet will 'redefine print,' says rumor mill

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Re-booting the Book

For what it's worth, I did a detailed analysis of what it would mean for Apple to "re-invent" print media in digital form, concluding that Apple has three key things going for it that make it a natural:

1. A pre-existing 50M device footprint with the iPhone + iPod Touch that provides leverage for a new device;

2. A proven dynamic platform (read: integrated hardware-software-services-tools) for end-to-end content creation, application development, distribution, and global reach, supported by deep application and media libraries, and a robust runtime space;

3. A durable billing relationship with consumers to the tune of 100M credit cards on file (iTunes + App Store, Mobile Me).

Plus, the history of Steve Jobs dating back to Next suggests that this is strategic to him (and thus, Apple), something the post covers:

Rebooting the Book (One Apple iPad Tablet at a Time)

http://bit.ly/zOoEu

Check it out if interested.

Mark

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