Or, alternatively, perhaps Google will discover that their business interests are better aligned with Motorola/Verizon and will focus on bugfixes and enhancements for that, ignoring their own phone. Which would leave yet another half-assed Android phone on the market, confusing the customers ("which of the 35 brands of similar-looking phone has that feature I saw in the commercial, again?") and dragging down the brand.
Android is a younger platform than the iPhone and has already implicitly deprecated an entire generation of hardware. Meanwhile, I can attest that the first generation iPhone still works fine -- runs faster than ever, in fact, thanks to the backward-compatible software updates and consistent UI.
This is what people worry about when they worry about too many Android products undercutting each other. And why the arrival of a potential flagship product -- the Droid phone, which even has the right name! -- looks like it could be a good thing for the platform; it could impose some focus. Why on Earth is Google planning to confuse that issue?
Android is a younger platform than the iPhone and has already implicitly deprecated an entire generation of hardware. Meanwhile, I can attest that the first generation iPhone still works fine -- runs faster than ever, in fact, thanks to the backward-compatible software updates and consistent UI.
This is what people worry about when they worry about too many Android products undercutting each other. And why the arrival of a potential flagship product -- the Droid phone, which even has the right name! -- looks like it could be a good thing for the platform; it could impose some focus. Why on Earth is Google planning to confuse that issue?