Eric Schmidt: Google activating 200,000 Android handsets per diem

Honestly. I understand your wanting to defend Google. But be totally honest. If Apple were caught doing the things that Google got caught doing, you would be lining up to sign petitions. Screaming for maistream media to all over Apple’s butt like antennagate.

I think what @Riely pointed out was the ignoring is done by people like yourself as well. Hypocrisy.

Whats sickening is all sides have very few rational users. I see this idiocy spreading like wildfire. Sheep calling sheep, sheep. What a vicious cycle. tsk tsk tsk.

Thank you Sheriff for defending Apple yet again.

Not defending Apple. Just tired of the crappy comments on BGR.

Since you guys refuse to be balanced in criticism. I’ll spread it around.

Wherever you see apphole’s name being tarnished… wherever evil triumphs over good…
Duh duh duh dah…. Mike D and his little sidekock jarret to the rescue!

how can you so blindly defend a company whose policies blatantly violate the constitution? And not some obscure amendment but our freedom of speech.

Uhm, “If Apple were caught doing…”

They were. They secretly saved all the user movement data and even sold it to other companies. Yes, anonymous, but still.
Google does the same but
- you can turn it off
- you have to ACCEPT it and get a warning first

Oh, and concerning the WLAN disaster Google just had in Germany (where i am from, so i guess i know a bit about that): Yes, they screwed up. Funnily tho, there are many companies out there specialized on basically driving around and cartographing all the Hotspots. Apple has a Company that does just that, exactly like Google. But when evil Google does it, its a part of their Big Brother Masterplan, when Apple does it, its just for the Consumer!

Where exactly am i biased here or a Hypocrit when im pointing out that Apple does exactly the same Google does but doesnt get a shitstorm when it comes out?

so why exactly am i a Fanboy?

What do you think happens to all the data Genius sends over to Apple? All data for Apple to market music to you. And that’s just iTunes not to mention what’s on the iPhone. So let’s be honest on both sides. All companies are collecting data to profit from one way or the other.

“I think what @Riely pointed out was the ignoring is done by people like yourself as well. Hypocrisy. ”

And where the f*ck do you see me writing as a mindless fanboy?
May i quote? “I dont wanna say Google is the best company around when it comes to privacy (far from it)”

I am well aware of my privacy options and the privacy problems on my Google account, why does that make me a fanboy?

Ah, now i get it. Im only not “biased” when i dont write ANYTHING positive about Google and only write my last quote again:

“I dont wanna say Google is the best company”
HAPPY NOW?

So you traded that for root, update, root again. Sounds identical.

Not so. I owned 2 iPod Touches before purchasing a Droid. Your statement is flawed.

Wait what? My logic that “people have genuine opinions and not all then are going to be pro apple” is flawed?

@Dlnc

Which is the genius of Google. They make dough no matter what, from multiple platforms whether or not its a Android device. They literally are everywhere.

I dare anybody with connectivity on a smartphone or a laptop or desktop to try to not touch and of Googles tendrils. You will be very hard pressed like trying to avoid goods made in China. Android just gives Google a more direct access to your data for them to mine and push ads and compile stats. Which is the real root of their business. Its almost like a grand “Human behavior” project.

Whick means they probably have a huge folder on all the nasty things you say about them so when they do overthrow all the worlds govs you will probably be in the first lot sent to reeducation camps, sitting right next to your buddy jarret. Glansburg bought his way off that train. Maybe you should look to him for example(still very bitter, but at least plays along)

Okay what are you guys really comparing.

iOS (3 device lines) vs Android ( 20+ device lines)

iOS smartphone vs Android smartphones (10+ smartphones)

I’m tired of reading all these misleading comments and articles. Work with real facts and fair comparisons.

Apple makes 1 phone. They do not license it.

Google makes an OS and license it to any who want

Samsung, HTC, Motorola and other Android smartphone makers are not I repeat, are not on the same side.

Not One Android device has had the equal success of an iPhone. Not One. (Although I think in a few years Motorola will be the first to before any other Android maker.)

Collectively Android does outsell the iPhone specifically. thats a 10+ phones vs 1 fight.

The Fandroids are so obsessed with Apple that they don’t realize the FAIR fight is with RIM, and Blackberry blows away Androids in sales.

Apple doesn’t give a rats butt about being #1 in marketshare. You guys just don’t get it. Is Mercedes #1 in marketshare? or maybe BMW? or Lotus? No. They are far outsold by Ford, Toyota and Honda. And guess what, business is fine for them though they don’t have the largest marketshare. They do have much higher satisfaction rates, which leads to return customers, which is one of the holy grails to having a strong brand. The customer comes back to specifically to that company.

I cannot wait til Android gets the Market share that Fandroid crazies(not all Android users) desire so much like Smegal does the ring, because then they will be left with the nagging question of whats next?

A lot of tech savvy people here but far too many here commenting have no clue about BUSINESS.

Here are some suggested articles for BGR:

Whats the rate of brand loyalty among Android consumers? Y’know, people who plan to stay on the Android platform. Yeah I said people. Not idiots or fanboys. Just because people may want to stick with one platform doesn’t automatically make them a sheep. (Yes thats aimed at hypocrites. you know who you are)

Are they sticking with their initial Android manufacturer or did they switch to another Android manufacturer?

If they did switch, why? (Mission critical info any company would want to know)

How likely are they to return to the very same Android manufacturer of their current Android device/smartphone?

These questions make more business sense since Motorola, HTC and Samsung and many others are all fighting for the same piece of Android pie.

But nooooo that doesn’t mean anything around here because its more fun to have FANBOY wars. Even the serious business sites and magazines fall in to this trap.

Well said Mike

Good article….
How many people have been able to leave the icult affter drinking the koolaid.
You are the reason people hate apple. Not apple. YOU!

@WalterSobchak

The reason why y’all hate Apple and RIM users as well. (Theres a lot of hate thrown at them as well on BGR) Is because they are happy with their choice of product.

I’m not defending dorkish behavior of which all sides have people guilty of. But the Hateboys on BGR seem to harras Apple, RIM and anyone who don’t glow all about Android. To the point that When reasonable Android users levy a critique at Android, the Hateboys then consume their own like piranha.

What you actually hate is the fact that more and more people on many platforms are tired of the fanboy wars. The hateboys are being smoked out. People want reasonable conversations and civil debate.

I will say it again. All the bitching the haters do about Apple actually helps Apple. If you hate them stop complaining about them and chat more about what needs to fixed in the platform of your choice. That would help them. But instead the bitching and carping is just giving the solutions away to the very thing you hate the most.

You mad yet?

I take exception to your statement that HTC, Samsung, et al. are not on the same side. For Google’s purposes and Android’s purposes (and this article is, let’s face it, about Google and Android), they certainly are on the same side.

As for your statement about iOS v. Android, I candidly confess that I don’t have the numbers (and that I’m simply too lazy to look them up); however, presupposing that Apple currently holds a lead in the OS matchup, the numbers that I have been reading about Android’s growing market share percentages (coupled with the falling market share percentages of the competitors, including Apple) indicate that Android is well serving Google’s goal: to prevent any company from freezing them out of the mobile marketplace. I need you to read that sentence at least twice because, without understanding it, the following will make no sense: that fact renders all of your speak about the unfairness of 10 phones v. 1 phone or 20 manufacturers v. 1 manufacturer or X devices v. 3 devices completely irrelevant. You’re simply missing the whole point.

And, finally, it renders irrelevant your statements about BMW v. Ford. Google is the BMW, etc. of the search engine market. As a macbook user, I like Apple (and have successfully proselytized their laptops to a couple of friends). I don’t like their phone. I don’t like their walled garden approach. I don’t like their paternalistic statements about battery usage. Frankly, it’s my battery and I’ll kill it the way I want. It’s my phone and I’ll subject it to the risks I wish to subject it to. And I’m shocked and appalled by the way they handled the whole antenna/proximity sensor issues on their new flagship mobile device (especially having seen the issue on the only iPhone 4′s I’ve played with… those my friends have). It makes me wonder how different Apple would have been regarding their computers if they HAD won the PC war. But Apple does bring good competition to the table, and I can, at least, appreciate that. I just like the fact that the competition is beginning to eat their lunch.

So… the question is… with all the handwriting on the wall… are you mad yet?

have you been not paying attention?

http://www.telecomseurope.net/content/android-bumps-blackberry-second-place

I honestly don’t get the comparison people keeping bringing up. About Apple’s 1 phone vs Androids 20. And how once one of Android phones can beat the iPhone in 1vs1 sales. Then it will matter. I seriously think anyone who makes this comparison is mentally handicapped.

No single Android phone will make the sales of the iPhone. Because what Google has done is given us (the consumer) a choice. We get to say, OK, I know I want the Android OS. Now which phone best suits my needs.

Where as Apple has a strangle hold on their consumers. They say this is what you need. This is what you want. This is how we want our phone. So this is what you want in your phone. Anything you might want your phone to do that the iPhone doesn’t do. Doesn’t matter.

The only reason the iPhone sells so well is because anyone who wants the iOS doesn’t get a choice in the phone the can get. If Apple allowed other manufacturers to develop phones with the iOS. You wouldn’t see the iPhone sales as high as they are right now or on launch day.

Anyone remember the “1984″ Mac commercial? Where everyone is marching in single file. They all look the same. With shaved heads and grey jumpsuits. A guy on a teleprompter is telling everyone
“My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the State. And today, that great body has purged itself of parasites. We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of facts. The thugs and wreckers have been cast out. And the poisonous weeds of disinformation have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Let each and every cell rejoice! For today we celebrate the first, glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directive! We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!”
A lady is being chased by guards and she runs into a room with a sledge hammer and smashes the display of the evil corporation. Essentially liberating the world.

Well iPhone users are the marching sheep. Apple has become the evil corporation. Google is now the girl with the sledgehammer. And Steve Jobs is the guy on the teleprompter.

I was good reading until I got to this statement:

“Apple doesn’t give a rats butt about being #1 in marketshare. ”

And then I knew you were full of s**t. And you wonder why your comments are always rated negative…

Apple’s action as of recent has brought about:

Cheaper music

Cheaper movies

Cheaper mobile apps

The profit comes from sizable volumes of content being bought. I’d say the customers are benefitting. Hell and not just on Apple’s ecosystem, but their actions forced pressure through out the industry. So Android users benfitted too. And if Google can pressure prices to go lower, guess what? ITS STILL ALL GOOD, for all platforms because of the ripple effect.

So honestly what are you really trying to say? really?

Sheriff you sure love your Apple.

I love technology. You see I’m a real Technologist.

Run along now, don’t you have some App to pirate or some phone to root or jailbreak.

dont think for a second that you are getting things cheaper because apple is extremely profitable. If anything the fact that they have a large army of followers who will buy anything with an apple logo stops them from lowering prices anymore. It also leads to amazing customer service like “your holding the phone the wrong way”. You think for one second that a company that didnt have the mindless followers like apple would be able to get away with comments like that? And yes, there are plenty more examples of things like that. Bottom line is they know that almost anything they put out will sell, why on earth would they discount prices as low as they could.

Antennagate is so last month. Guess what the world has moved on. Thats why we are talking about Android handsets selling well. Not “Lets bitch about Apple” or “Call for Apple’s demise again.”

Larger profit margins allow for more growth, more growth allows for newer and stronger product lines, more product lines, more sales, more sales, more stores, more stores, more JOBS created. Dont be so narrow minded.