GENIUS: Stripping all references to Google out of Android OS

AT&T is going to release the Back Flip a Google Android phone made by
Motorola.

How can they do that without damaging their all important relationship
with Apple?

"They're rolling out Android with a mid-range device literally
stripped of every possible reference to Google!"

"When you perform any sort of search on Backflip, you're directed to
Yahoo! Search, not Google. Every instance of search - the home screen
search widget, searching from within the Web browser, apps that use
search - directs you to Y! and not G. So while Backflip may run
Google's Android operating system, this is no Google Phone. It's a
Motorola phone customized to AT&T's liking and loaded with apps and
other "features" designed to leverage AT&T's various business
relationships, including their search deal with Yahoo!

AT&T can do this because Android is an open source platform. Save a
handful of "Google Experience" devices (like Verizon's Droid) that
feature actual Google logos on the phone, packaging, and marketing
materials, Android phones are built using open source software that
Google lets phone makers and cellular carriers tweak as they will. So
AT&T had Motorola tweak the Google right on out of the Backflip. "

SHEER GENIUS!

:>)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noah-k..._b_487411.html

On Mar 7, 9:34*am, "FUTURE SHOCK: iPad Protected by 200 Patents"
<vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> AT&T is going to release the Back Flip a Google Android phone made by
> Motorola.
>
> How can they do that without damaging their all important relationship
> with Apple?
>
> "They're rolling out Android with a mid-range device literally
> stripped of every possible reference to Google!"
>
> "When you perform any sort of search on Backflip, you're directed to
> Yahoo! Search, not Google. Every instance of search - the home screen
> search widget, searching from within the Web browser, apps that use
> search - directs you to Y! and not G. So while Backflip may run
> Google's Android operating system, this is no Google Phone. It's a
> Motorola phone customized to AT&T's liking and loaded with apps and
> other "features" designed to leverage AT&T's various business
> relationships, including their search deal with Yahoo!
>
> AT&T can do this because Android is an open source platform. Save a
> handful of "Google Experience" devices (like Verizon's Droid) that
> feature actual Google logos on the phone, packaging, and marketing
> materials, Android phones are built using open source software that
> Google lets phone makers and cellular carriers tweak as they will. So
> AT&T had Motorola tweak the Google right on out of the Backflip. "
>
> SHEER GENIUS!
>
> :>)
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noah-k...ing-on-apple_b...

What should really irk Google stock holders is that AT&T and Motorola
just wrecked the Android business model.

Google was planning on advertising revenue from ads when they started
spending all that money developing an Open Source OS. Google never
dreamed mobile businesses would remove Google ads and substitute their
competing products in Google's work.

If I had money in Google I would be furious at the loss of investment
and revenue in mobile, one dumb move by key people at Google that can
not be undone. If I bought any Android product I would be furious at
the continued fracturing of the platform in unexpected ways that now
diminishes Android's value for the end user.

On 2010-03-07, FUTURE SHOCK: iPad Protected by 200 Patents <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noah-k...ing-on-apple_b...
>
> What should really irk Google stock holders is that AT&T and Motorola
> just wrecked the Android business model.
>
> Google was planning on advertising revenue from ads when they started
> spending all that money developing an Open Source OS. Google never
> dreamed mobile businesses would remove Google ads and substitute their
> competing products in Google's work.
>
> If I had money in Google I would be furious at the loss of investment
> and revenue in mobile, one dumb move by key people at Google that can
> not be undone. If I bought any Android product I would be furious at
> the continued fracturing of the platform in unexpected ways that now
> diminishes Android's value for the end user.

Don't worry. HTC has already had an AT&T-banded Nexus One approved
by the FCC, e.g.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/...rough-the-fcc/

so you'll get to choose between a Google-branded Android phone and
a non-Google-branded Android phone. Competition is good.

I'd worry more about Motorola. Their "we'll do anything for any
carrier" attitude causes them to take direction on features and
branding from companies which have just incredibly bad taste. I
doubt that anything AT&T or Verizon has added to (or deleted from)
the product will help Motorola sell more phones.

Dennis Ferguson