One of the biggest obstacles facing Android, the mobile operating system created by Google, was the inevitable comparison with Apple’s iPhone, probably the terminal that has caused more excitement in recent years. The presentation last Tuesday of G1, the first Android phone that includes (designed by Taiwan’s HTC and will be sold by T-Mobile) has not left anyone indifferent.
Among the hardest included specialists from The New York Times who reported that G1 is like a personal computer while the iPhone be a Macintosh. ‘The G1 has a lot of buttons on both the front and on the screen and that means it takes longer to do things more often made with a mobile’ he said.
In the specialized blogs The Wall Street Journal, the specialists of the firm Atlantic Equities noted that they did not see the G1 as an ‘iPhone killer’, noting that Google will be difficult to challenge Apple in the short term. In this diary, the specialist Gartner, Carolina Milanesi, noted that Apple’s brand is much stronger than that of Google and HTC on the phone, while Charles Golvin of Forrester Research, said that iPhone users had shown much more enthusiasm when it was released this terminal that the followers of Google.
Given this scenario, Chris DiBona, Open Source global head of Google, came out yesterday in defense of the G1 and Android. In the new edition of Google Developer Day, held in Madrid Amusement Park, the executive said that this OS will create a new scenario for the mobile, open to application development.
DiBona said the G1 keyboard also has an interface ‘excellent resembles that of a desktop PC that is easier to use. ” The manager admitted that the weight is slightly higher than the iPhone but said that the terminal is smaller HTC. Similarly, said he has more icons in addition to a better lateral movement of the screen.
DiBona also said Apple has a business model of selling hardware, commenting that if iPhone users have iTunes, the online music store in the company of the apple, ‘G1 users can buy songs from Amazon. ” At one point in his presentation, described as excellent the iPhone and joked to ensure that ‘my wife has one. ”
With respect to Microsoft, the Google executive said that ‘they are involved in selling operating systems while we give them free’, and added that his company is committed to a more mobile world where no one has changed and the domain. ‘Microsoft is great and Nokia is huge, “said Google executive, who said he was glad when the Finnish company decided to open its Symbian operating system to developers.