Type of Article: MacTech Blog

Greg’s Bite: Why Android has Peaked

When the Motorola/Apple cell phone came out in the summer of 2005, it was a great disappointment to both Apple and Apple fans. You might as well have taped an iPod to a standard cell phone. It sucked. Apple, by that point in time, already knew to do a cell phone right, they would have to start from scratch. The first thing they did was junk their cell phone engineering relationship with Motorola and also scrap conventional notions of what a cell phone was.

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Greg’s Bite: Why Android has Peaked

When the Motorola/Apple cell phone came out in the summer of 2005, it was a great disappointment to both Apple and Apple fans. You might as well have taped an iPod to a standard cell phone. It sucked. Apple, by that point in time, already knew to do a cell phone right, they would have to start from scratch. The first thing they did was junk their cell phone engineering relationship with Motorola and also scrap conventional notions of what a cell phone was.

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Greg’s Bite: Why Android has Peaked

When the Motorola/Apple cell phone came out in the summer of 2005, it was a great disappointment to both Apple and Apple fans. You might as well have taped an iPod to a standard cell phone. It sucked. Apple, by that point in time, already knew to do a cell phone right, they would have to start from scratch. The first thing they did was junk their cell phone engineering relationship with Motorola and also scrap conventional notions of what a cell phone was.

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Reporter’s Notebook: sunny in San Fran

The weather is great here in San Francisco. It was sunny and warm on Tuesday. Back in my hometown of Nashville, it’s cold with two inches of snow. This is our third (or is it fourth?) snowfall of more than an inch of the white stuff — and that’s a rarity for Music City.

Sure, those of you who live in colder climes may laugh. But when you’re not used to very much snow, you’re not prepared to handle it. In fact, in Tennessee we just run on cars off in ditches when it starts snowing to avoid the rush.

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