http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/google-to-stop-selling-nexus-one/


After a long and painful decline, Google has finally put the Nexus One phone 
out of its misery. After it has shifted the last batch of handsets, the 
search company will stop selling its first - and possibly last - true 
Googlephone

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One Shot, One Kill wrote:

> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/google-to-stop-selling-nexus-one/
> 
> After a long and painful decline, Google has finally put the Nexus One
> phone out of its misery. After it has shifted the last batch of handsets,
> the search company will stop selling its first - and possibly last - true
> Googlephone

<quote>
Kidding aside, Android is shaping up to dominate the mobile OS market the 
same way Windows has dominated the desktop market, and we’re excited to see 
the first of the Android tablets as they become available.
</quote>

Android is an amazing success. Windows Mobile is an amazing failure. Well 
done Google in showing how OSS is the future.

One Shot, One Kill wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/google-to-stop-selling-nexus-one/
> 
> 
> After a long and painful decline, Google has finally put the Nexus One phone 
> out of its misery. After it has shifted the last batch of handsets, the 
> search company will stop selling its first - and possibly last - true 
> Googlephone

Yeah, Google launched the Nexus One *all* the way back in January, and 
pulled the plug in May -- so it's really been a "long" decline. And this 
isn't exactly new news, is it?

Do these guys ever actually read the crap they write?

-- 
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"

RonB posted this message in ROT13 encoding:

> One Shot, One Kill wrote:
>> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/google-to-stop-selling-nexus-one/
>> 
>> 
>> After a long and painful decline, Google has finally put the Nexus One phone 
>> out of its misery. After it has shifted the last batch of handsets, the 
>> search company will stop selling its first - and possibly last - true 
>> Googlephone
>
> Yeah, Google launched the Nexus One *all* the way back in January, and 
> pulled the plug in May -- so it's really been a "long" decline. And this 
> isn't exactly new news, is it?
>
> Do these guys ever actually read the crap they write?

What the hey, its W-I-R-E-D, the "People Magazine" of technology.

-- 
The odds are a million to one against your being one in a million.

Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> RonB posted this message in ROT13 encoding:
> 
>> One Shot, One Kill wrote:
>>> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/google-to-stop-selling-nexus-one/
>>>
>>>
>>> After a long and painful decline, Google has finally put the Nexus One phone 
>>> out of its misery. After it has shifted the last batch of handsets, the 
>>> search company will stop selling its first - and possibly last - true 
>>> Googlephone
>> Yeah, Google launched the Nexus One *all* the way back in January, and 
>> pulled the plug in May -- so it's really been a "long" decline. And this 
>> isn't exactly new news, is it?
>>
>> Do these guys ever actually read the crap they write?
> 
> What the hey, its W-I-R-E-D, the "People Magazine" of technology.

I see. It seems a lot of sites want to sensationalize old news. But 
maybe Wired is worse than the others... I don't know.

-- 
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"

RonB wrote:

> One Snot wrote:
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/google-to-stop-selling-nexus-one/
>
>Yeah, Google launched the Nexus One *all* the way back in January, and 
>pulled the plug in May -- so it's really been a "long" decline. And this 
>isn't exactly new news, is it?

At least with FOSS, even if a particular product fails, the
source-code can live-on.

-- 
"And yet the vast majority of people *still* choose XP. Ask the reason
why and then the path becomes clearer."  -  "True Linux advocate"
Hadron Quark, April 2009

chrisv wrote:
> RonB wrote:
> 
>> One Snot wrote:
>>> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/google-to-stop-selling-nexus-one/
>> Yeah, Google launched the Nexus One *all* the way back in January, and 
>> pulled the plug in May -- so it's really been a "long" decline. And this 
>> isn't exactly new news, is it?
> 
> At least with FOSS, even if a particular product fails, the
> source-code can live-on.

The thing is, the Android platform has advanced so rapidly that the 
Nexus One was already "long in the tooth" in six months.

-- 
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"

In article <H7j1o.24101$o27.5741@newsfe08.iad>,
 Hardon <hardon.quark@gmail.com> wrote:

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> One Shot, One Kill wrote:
> 
> > http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/google-to-stop-selling-nexus-one/
> > 
> > After a long and painful decline, Google has finally put the Nexus One
> > phone out of its misery. After it has shifted the last batch of handsets,
> > the search company will stop selling its first - and possibly last - true
> > Googlephone
> 
> <quote>
> Kidding aside, Android is shaping up to dominate the mobile OS market the 
> same way Windows has dominated the desktop market, and we’re excited to see 
> the first of the Android tablets as they become available.
> </quote>

Overgeneralizing from the success of Windows in the desktop market is 
not really justifiable, given that other markets have gone in different 
directions (music players, consoles, etc.). Personally, I doubt _any_ 
single platform will dominate mobile the way Windows dominated the 
desktop.

> Android is an amazing success. Windows Mobile is an amazing failure. Well 
> done Google in showing how OSS is the future.

-- 
"The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to
anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it
must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -- John Maynard Keynes