And Google kills the Google branded phone...

[zerocool84]

N1 does not equal Android.

Google has done a lot of things that didn't work out.

Just like Apple has done many things that didn't work out either. It's not like this phone shook up anything anyways. It was just another Android phone.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I love how some of you are spinning it into a "BUT Android was a success".
Noone argue that fact.
From the 4th post of this thread, I simply said the Nexus One was a marketing disaster.
Can you argue that it wasn't a marketing disater ??

It's hard to call something a disaster when Google is so open and straightforward about it being an experiment. We got an awesome phone that is unencumbered by carriers and gets OS updates before anyone else. Google arguably didn't get much out of it, besides a good lesson, so they pulled back.

Why are you so emotional about it?

 

[theeedude]

It's hard to call something a disaster when Google is so open and straightforward about it being an experiment. We got an awesome phone that is unencumbered by carriers and gets OS updates before anyone else. Google arguably didn't get much out of it, besides a good lesson, so they pulled back.

Why are you so emotional about it?

Because Android is on the attack, and it looks unstoppable. Some people are looking for a beloved patriot in its armor to grab onto. But what they fail to understand is that Android is an "evolutionary" ecosystem that evolves through variation and natural selection, so when an evolutionary dead end dies off, it strengthens, instead of weakening the ecosystem. Some are still comparing this to Apple's "intelligent design" ecosystem, where if the iPhone dies off, the ecosystem itself dies with it.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Because Android is on the attack, and it looks unstoppable. Some people are looking for a beloved patriot in its armor to grab onto. But what they fail to understand is that Android is an "evolutionary" ecosystem that evolves through variation and natural selection, so when an evolutionary dead end dies off, it strengthens, instead of weakening the ecosystem. Some are still comparing this to Apple's "intelligent design" ecosystem, where if the iPhone dies off, the ecosystem itself dies with it.

And some people are so biased they can't admit RIM has the most phone sales and market share, or that Apple is in amazing financial shape and the Android isn't going to make Apple disappear, or the the smart phone market is massive enough to support all 3 and some bit players.