{"id":100548,"date":"2017-09-20T21:47:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T05:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=189434"},"modified":"2017-09-20T21:47:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T05:47:49","slug":"google-still-wants-to-be-apple-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/20\/google-still-wants-to-be-apple-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Google still wants to be Apple (sort of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00UCALTN0\/geneexpressio-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-189435\" src=\"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/htc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/20\/technology\/google-htc-smartphones.html?_r=0\">Google Is Buying HTC\u2019s Smartphone Expertise for $1.1 Billion<\/a>. This, after Google has already <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motorola_Mobility#Under_Google_ownership\">bought and sold Motorola<\/a>. Remember when <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_Mobile\">Microsoft bought part of Nokia<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that Apple and Samsung are starting to create a duopoly. And though most phones run Android, iPhones are much more profitable. There&#8217;s a reason many companies develop for iOS but not Android. A friend at Google years ago bemoaned how much more profitable iPhone owners were compared to those bought Android phones.<\/p>\n<p>With all that being said the Apple launch and comments on this blog have convinced me I&#8217;m not going iPhone. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll go for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00UCALTN0\/geneexpressio-20\">HTC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B01NBRN2YI\/geneexpressio-20\">Motorola<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B01CJU8FV4\/geneexpressio-20\">Samsung<\/a>. But for me a phone is functional, not an accessory. Perhaps that explains some of the psychological reasons that iPhone owners spend so much more money on apps&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F09%2F20%2Fgoogle-still-wants-to-be-apple-sort-of%2F&amp;linkname=Google%20still%20wants%20to%20be%20Apple%20%28sort%20of%29\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F09%2F20%2Fgoogle-still-wants-to-be-apple-sort-of%2F&amp;linkname=Google%20still%20wants%20to%20be%20Apple%20%28sort%20of%29\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plus\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/google_plus?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F09%2F20%2Fgoogle-still-wants-to-be-apple-sort-of%2F&amp;linkname=Google%20still%20wants%20to%20be%20Apple%20%28sort%20of%29\" title=\"Google+\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F09%2F20%2Fgoogle-still-wants-to-be-apple-sort-of%2F&amp;title=Google%20still%20wants%20to%20be%20Apple%20%28sort%20of%29\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/2017\/09\/20\/google-still-wants-to-be-apple-sort-of\/\" data-a2a-title=\"Google still wants to be Apple (sort of)\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Is Buying HTC&rsquo;s Smartphone Expertise for $1.1 Billion. This, after Google has already bought and sold Motorola. Remember when Microsoft bought part of Nokia? The problem is that Apple and Samsung are starting to create a duopoly. And though most phones run Android, iPhones are much more profitable. There&rsquo;s a reason many companies develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100549,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100548\/revisions\/100549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}