Forbes: Will Google crush the iPhone?

By no way can the bloated web company compete with a company creating "real" goods...

The web 2.0 bubble will soon enough burst like the first "New economy" bubble bursted - will see where google and others are then.

As for a phone development - if it took a multi decade hardware/software manufacturer - that is maybe one of the best if not the best at this job - 2 years or even more to design/develop/manufacture a phone like the iphone - how long would that process take for google?

I doubt they have the internal structures to create an embedded device with that kind of quality be it in reliability, speed, performance and OS!?

Take a look at Apple's competitors in the mobile market:
- Nokia
- Sony Ericsson
- Motorola
- Symbian (as OS manufacturer)
- MS (Windows Mobile)

So what about "the google vaporware phone"?

I couldn't care less at the moment about it - i already own the currently best phone available - hacked with 3rd party apps. My iPhone.

over and out...

Ha, like Google can just pull out of thin air the institutional knowledge required to develop world-class consumer tech hardware. Oh, I get it, they'll buy the know-how from the same place that Microsoft bought their consumer hardware expertise. That's the ticket.

This article is pure speculation. Nothing concrete to prove jack about what google is doing.

I dont see any kind of google hardware soon. We had that buzzword Google OS about a year ago, and media quickly started to phantasize about a "google computer with an OS based on linux". Hu, holy crap! Now they phantasize not about a google desktop computer, but about a google phone. No! Google OS aka google mobile aka idontknow is not a device. It's a bunch of web based applications. The web is the OS! Thats what google is about. You dont need a special device. Any device that can access the web is fine. Everything is about software, and the old times big-server-thin-client structure is coming back in a new form.

@23 BR:

Did you really just blame Apple for the fact that there's no iPhone in Canada? I really can't imagine it's Apple's fault, since the only true monopoly that comes to mind in the western world today is Rogers. Apple probably just refuses to play Rogers' game, and I can't say I blame 'em. For your sake, someone needs to flex some muscle over Rogers. Are the consumers doing it?

Since it's taking forever to get the iPhone here in Canada (it's even unrolling in France before it debuts just north of the US border) I'd welcome something new in phones... yes even from Google since Apple seems to have forgotten about us in the chilly north. Anything to help shake up the mobile cartel in this country would be good.

"With 'phone' project, Google has mobile ad dollars in its sights"

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/07/business/gphone.php?WT.mc_id=rssfrontpage

@4, that's what I heard, too.

These stories get more daft all the time. Apple isn't the only mobile company, and crazy as it may seem there's rather a lot of them and some even make a profit! *gasp*.

Less of the crushing, killing blah blah nonsense.

As other noted: most reports have Google releasing a mobile OS rather than a Google branded phone.

The Forbes article has very little to do with the title of the article. This seems like the easiest way for publishers to get readers mention an Apple product - it matters little if the text of the article matches the eye-catching headline.

Any new entrant in the mobile phone market will take customers away from the weaker players. Apple is currently a very strong player and just needs to keep executing its strategy.