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Sprint, Verizon Snub Nexus One - Is The Google Phone A Failure?
Nexus One, Google's overhyped Android phone, is making headlines these days for all the wrong reasons. After it was announced last month that it would be available, Verizon was the first to prick the Nexus One bubble. This week, the Sprint and Nexus One pairing immediately vaporized. Sprint axed Nexus One after previously saying it would carry the device. Depending on who is talking, Verizon and Sprint snubbing Nexus One is either one of technology's greatest failures, or a trivial misstep that doesn't really matter.
Google web store Nexus One
The Nexus One failure, at first blush, seems obvious. Google wanted to make it so you could only buy the Nexus One in the Google web store. As reported on eWeek, Some experts think the Google web store Nexus One model is evidence that carriers aren't interested in supporting a device that can't sell in their own retail stores. Others argue that the Nexus One was just eclipsed by better Android phones.
Nexus One plan for Sprint
Just a few months ago, things were looking for Google’s Nexus One sales. PC World reports that in mid-March, Sprint said they would carry a CDMA version of Google's Nexus One sometime later this year. On Monday, Sprint decided to drop the Nexus One. Sprint decided to support the HTC EVO 4G Android instead. Sprint likely chose the HTC EVO 4G because it has a larger display screen than the Nexus One, runs on Sprint's 4G WiMAX network and also features the HTC Sense UI. It definitely didn’t help that it is impossible to buy a Nexus One from Sprint with your online cash advance.
Verizon Nexus One
The Nexus One/Verizon deal flopped thanks to the HTC Incredible Android phone. Both the Incredible and Google Nexus One have the same specs. Also like the Nexus One, the Incredible runs Android 2.1. What is the difference between the two devices? The Droid Incredible runs HTC’s revised Sense UI. Informationweek.com reports that the newer version of Sense makes using the Android platform a seamless and much more enjoyable experience.
The Nexus One and the Android advantage
Everybody likes a winner, and even before the Sprint and Verizon defections, the Nexus One reputation suffered from initial 3G connectivity bugs and low sales figures. PC World said that the remaining advantage Nexus One has over Incredible and EVO is its direct tie to Google's speedy OS update process. On the HTC Sense UI, updates can take months to reach users.
Android thrives without having the Nexus One
Is the Nexus One a failure? Most analysts believe Google is better off without the Nexus One. After being rejected by major carriers, the Nexus One is likely to be done. But its rivals all run on Android, which is just fine with Google. And all the media commotion about smartphone competition, of all things, has raised the profile of Android to the point that Android phones actually outsold Apple's iPhone last month.
Sources
eWeek
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Google-Nexus-One-Not-a-Failure-Despite-Slights-By-Sprint-Verizon-409079/
PC World reports
http://www.pcworld.com/article/196022/why_sprint_and_verizon_nixed_the_nexus_one.html
Informationweek.com
http://www.informationweek.com/newshome/index.jhtml;jsessionid=1U2VTTNH0NJJRQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN
IDC's Dan Vesset: Big Data Players to Grow in 2012, Disappear by 2015 (readwriteweb)
One of the most astoundingly sudden changes ever to happen in the software
landscape in so short a period of time is the rise of "big data" and NoSQL,
and the companies that manage it. What started out as a laboratory side-burner
project at Yahoo just last year, is today a fully-funded company, with
Hortonworks literally having managed to graft Hadoop onto a future Windows
Server.
Breaking structured data out of its proprietary molds has enabled a completely
new class of databases to lead the migration of enterprises to cloud storage
platforms, leapfrogging from zero to hero. In the dust - it would seem - are
companies like Oracle, SAP, and Sybase that suddenly find themselves playing
catch-up. 2012 should be a superb growth year for Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR,
and the many new companies and organizations riding the open source, big data
growth wave. And they should enjoy the party while it lasts, says Dan Vesset,
IDC's program vice president for data warehousing and analytics, because
history tells us such companies only grow so far.
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"We're talking about tiny, tiny players with a few million dollars in
professional services revenue," Vesset tells RWW, "against multi-billion-
dollar corporations. ...
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