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Nothing is Free—Except Maybe Google (But Not Really)

Posted on December 11, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

Google. Monopolies. Free Service Gone Paid, Business Change

Nothing is Free. Nothing. Is. Free. NOTHING IS EVER FREE.

You knew that, right?

I’ve been sharing my ideas about business change with you for years, and one of the themes that’s recurred over and over is that Google—even if somewhere deep in their bowels they still believe in their old corporate ‘Don’t Be Evil‘ credo—has become and will continue to become more and more evil.

Of course, business is business; ‘evil’ no more belongs in a business lexicon than ‘justice’ belongs in a discussion about law. ... READ MORE of Nothing is Free—Except Maybe Google (But Not Really) at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (489 words, 1 image, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

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Remember Google Bringing Nexus One to Verizon? Another Lie.

Posted on April 26, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

Remember back when Google launched the Nexus One SmartPhone and told us we should expect to see “their” phone on every major phone network? I commented at the time that the Google Phone looked like way less business change than Google wanted us to believe they were creating, and later told you that Google’s fragmentation of the Android Operating System might kill phones they were less attached to, like the Verizon Droid.

Now it looks like the entire Google Phone movement and creating the Nexus One was nothing more than a red herring to get carriers to develop Android devices. ... READ MORE of Remember Google Bringing Nexus One to Verizon? Another Lie. at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (325 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

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Google Kills the Droid

Posted on February 24, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 7 Comments

Ahh, Droid. We barely knew ye . . .

This week, Google introduced a version of Google Earth for Android SmartPhones. In large part, I don’t care; Google Earth is very cool, but compared to Google Maps it has limited real-world use.

And Google Earth requires version 2.1 of the Android operating system. Which means that it won’t run on the Droid, which has been available for just over three months. ... READ MORE of Google Kills the Droid at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (353 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

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Google Nexus One Business Change: Huge ETFs

Posted on January 12, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

Wow. And just when we had declared the Google Nexus One to represent no real business change.

While I’ll be standing by that statement for the most part, in not reading the contracts I missed one huge business change that folks who opt to take the Google / T-Mobile subsidy and get their Nexus One phones inexpensively could run up against:

Cancel early, and you owe not just T-Mobile, but also Google an early termination fee.

And it’s a fee that would make Verizon proud: $350 to Google, $200 to T-Mobile. ... READ MORE of Google Nexus One Business Change: Huge ETFs at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (252 words, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)

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Google’s New Business Change: Do Evil with Net Neutrality

Posted on September 26, 2009 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 7 Comments

I don’t get to defend telcos very often. AT&T, Verizon, and the like make up rules, enforce government regulations in a way that hurts their customers, and generally are questionable corporate citizens so much that it’s hard to be on their side.

Today I am. Thanks, Google.

AT&T is all over Google for violating Net Neutrality. Umm . . . AGAIN. ... READ MORE of Google’s New Business Change: Do Evil with Net Neutrality at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (130 words, estimated 31 secs reading time)

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