Google

I just saw this article about yet another new phone, but this one is from Google.  I'm not really salivating over this like the article says.  I think the article itself is propaganda, I think the "leaks" are just marketing, and I think that the phone will be one an HTC phone that Google has spiced up a bit and then branded. 

I do like the idea of the phone being unlocked to begin with, but I'm not sure that it will sell.  Most of the time people buy their phones through the carriers by entering into a contract with the carrier.  I’m not sure that the carriers will buy into the menu idea and still subsidize an unlocked phone. 

On a larger scale I’m intrigued at the things that Google is doing as a company.  At first Google was just a search engine/marketing company.  Now they are doing web browsers, cell phone operating systems, maps, email, corporate email, productivity software, and operating systems.  The article that I started with begins by saying “Watch out Apple”, but it looks more like it should be watch out Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell and anyone else in the technology sector.  I included Dell because after Google got android on phones they are contracting to make their own phones.  It’s not a big leap to think that they would do the same thing with Chromium.  I like these developments.  I would like to log in to Google Apps someday and take care of problems that happen on one of my branches Google computers that are running Chromium, or have someone in the company able to coordinate service using Google latitude that was deployed to our android phones. 

I’m concerned that they wont be able to pull it off.  I’m not questioning their technical skills.  I just think that as a company Google will not be able to focus on doing these other things well and maintain their focus on doing search.  I hope I’m wrong in this.