Well, Google has announced their plans in the wireless phone space. I have to say I am a bit underwhelmed at this point. Their press release reads like any of numerous other alliances or consortiums where a bunch of firms are getting together to try exploit some market opportunity. While Eric Schmidt says this alliance of over 34 firms is more ambitious than any single phone, I have to say I would have preferred to see an actual gPhone. Any time 34+ firms are getting together to do anything, I’ve learned to not expect much in terms of actual output. Google has typically been fairly aggressive in rolling out new services, so perhaps they will prove me wrong.
