"Google's platform independence isn't meant as altruism—it's good strategy. The company gets the vast bulk of its revenue from advertising. Thus Google has no business reason to care whether I got on the Web using an iPhone, a Droid, a BlackBerry, or a Windows 7 desktop—all it cares about is that I got on the Web at all and that I stay on the Web all day, every day."
Dec 19, 2009
The Myth of the Google Phone
Farhad Manjoo at Slate argues that the rumors of "the Google Phone" are just that, rumors. It wouldn't make strategic sense to develop a piece of hardware to compete with other Android phones:
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