I love how s0me of the tech press keeps saying “Is there room for one more?”, in regards to Windows Phone 7. It is a bit funny to me how they talk about the iPhone and Android, but then gloss over RIM and Nokia to point to Palms lack of traction in the market as proof that WP7 is DOA on arrival.
Investor Dave McClure at Google’s I/O conference in San Francisco said “Open is for losers”. He cited the iPhone and how successful it has been and that it is a completely closed world. You come in through Apple, play on Apple approved rides and pay Apple a premium for the amusement park.
According to the article at Venturebeat.com
Many of the other investors on the panel immediately grumbled about McClure’s response, offering the Internet and Google as examples of successful open technologies.
I have had a bit of a trouble believing Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto, unofficial or not. I don’t trust companies or governments to do things in my best interest, because that is not in their best interests. I left Gmail because of seeing ads for what was in my email. It is not the ads, but the idea of a company essentially reading my email. I’ll leave Microsoft’s hotmail the second I see this happen. I am not that concerned of my searches being tracked, but there is a point where that will go over the line and we are hitting it.
Wow, that “do no evil” motto of Google was apparently not known by the group that decided to charge $350 as their own Early Termination Fee on top of the carries ETF. Have to say I did not expect this from Google! Below is the actual statement from Google’s Nexus One’s Terms of Sale.