April 13, 2009 5:33 PM PDT
Rumor: Android set-top box in the works
Editors' note: The original story incorrectly stated that Motorola is planning to build an Android set-top box for KDDI in Japan, based on reports from the Web site Android Guys. To avoid confusion, the story has been removed. Please click here to see the appropriate information regarding Motorola's set-top box.
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No wait, he's doesn't even realize it's there. He's too focussed on dissing Apple, making the iPod Killing Zune, and "improving" their search third placer.
Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, by the time he's figured out what's happened to the living room and NetBook space, he's going to be so annoyed again and blow another couple of billion to eke out market share, just as someone else will be working on the next big thing, which they'll totally miss again.
- by alienjazzcat April 15, 2009 4:16 PM PDT
- "Android, which is an open source operating system, was originally designed by Google for mobile phones."
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(3 Comments)come now.. isn't the jig up? At the very least, GOOG was stealthing Android through the conduit of phones, but isn't their original intention clear by now? Once you hold an Android device like the G1, you realize its just a tiny computer, to which one might attach a larger screen, keyboard, etc..
It very much is the Google OS, let loose upon an unsuspecting world, gathering massive beta development activity.