Comments on: Google, Android, Nexus One: Phone Business Change? None!

By: Beat 'Em or Eat 'Em. Either Way Works as Coopetition

Beat 'Em or Eat 'Em. Either Way Works as Coopetition — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:28:46 +0000

[...] that you have to branch out to continue growing? If you’re Google, you try new things like making mobile phones, and hope for hits rather than misses. Or you can go the way Apple went, taking the iPod Touch, [...]

By: Droid Gets Android 2.1! Err...Not So Fast...

Droid Gets Android 2.1! Err...Not So Fast... — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:22:23 +0000

[...] what ever happened to the Android 2.1 upgrade for Droid that Verizon promised on January 6 when Google’s Nexus One was released? Remember when they said they’d start rolling it out on March 18, only to change [...]

By: If Google Analytics Measured Only SOME Website Visitors...

If Google Analytics Measured Only SOME Website Visitors... — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:13:19 +0000

[...] Google Analytics and many other tools from Google. For now. But it’s actions like this and the complete botching of the Nexus One initiative that make me question why, just a little more every day. Related to This:Even Google Doesn’t [...]

By: Huge ETFs: The Real Business Change in Google Nexus One

Huge ETFs: The Real Business Change in Google Nexus One — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:44:57 +0000

[...] Google Nexus One Business Change: Huge ETFs Author: The Answer Guy ( Jeff Yablon ) | Category: Uncategorized Wow. And just when we had declared the Google Nexus One to represent no real business change. [...]

By: The Answer Guy ( Jeff Yablon )

The Answer Guy ( Jeff Yablon ) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:44:48 +0000

Gib, I hear you. And you’re right that there is a $20 or so per month savings on T-Mobile over the other guys, which works out to $480 over two years. And don’t get me wrong; I’ll take $500 any time someone offers it to me.

On the other hand (and man, I do appreciate when people are straight like you were!) Google and the Nexus One didn’t make that discount; it was already there in the T-Mobile business model.

Yes, it’s possible that if enough people buy the Nexus One and use T-Mobile that the price of service from the other guys could get pushed down. And yes, we can give Google, Android, and Nexus One some of the credit for that if it happens. But that’s pure speculation.

What I think would have been really cool, given that we now know what it costs to make the Nexus One (just a bit less than the on-contract price) is if Google had made it an IP-only device. They could have done that and used Google Voice to assign phone numbers. They could have sold it for $200 without contract and given it away on contract, used no carrier at all, and made their money . . . later. That would have been real business change, and I can’t figure out why they didn’t go that way.

By: Gib Wallis

Gib Wallis — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:48:12 +0000

I think you’re right about the me too aspect, and Google was called on that during their press event on January 5th.

But I think you’re wrong about the upswing of a Nexus One and paying full price — T-Mobile is already much, much cheaper for data and voice plans, but when you switch to a contractless arrangement with them, your monthly cost goes down about another $20.

True, T-Mobile has been pushing this for a while and not just with Google — it works the same way with a MyTouch3G, a BlackBerry, a Cliq, and even the off brand handsets.

So although Google hasn’t innovated this aspect of the Nexus One, people who buy one wihout a contract certainly benefit from it.

In the long run, I think that Google pushing their phone and getting great buzz for a great phone and OS with great price incentives for consumers not to opt for the subsidized phone might open things up.

What if your contract’s up with Verizon and the Nexus One is available only contract through them, but without one on T-Mobile? What if Verizon has to offer it without a contract, but doesn’t reduce their monthly fees when you pay for the phone outright?

People will start seeing the difference of carrier get bigger just as the T-Mobile network gets better and faster.

By: A Real Person Decides: iPhone vs. Droid vs. Nexus One

A Real Person Decides: iPhone vs. Droid vs. Nexus One — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:17:09 +0000

[...] that even with all the press coverage and expert opinions being tossed around in the aftermath of Google ’s Nexus One release just last week, real people are tied in knots over their choice of [...]

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Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:58:08 +0000

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