No Google Phone But Instead Mobile Software, Says Google
Google quashes mobile phone talk from The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Google is pushing back on earlier reports of building its own cell phone. Richard Kimber, managing director of sales and operations of Google South-East Asia, was quoted at the Search Engine Room conference in Sydney as saying: “At this point in time, we […]
Barry Schwartz on March 21, 2007 at 11:18 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google quashes mobile phone talk from The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Google is pushing back on earlier reports of building its own cell phone.
Richard Kimber, managing director of sales and operations of Google South-East Asia, was quoted at the Search Engine Room conference in Sydney as saying: “At this point in time, we are very focused on the software, not the phone.”
This echoes recent comments from Google’s chief internet evangelist Vinton Cerf. Cerf said that building out a phone would change Google’s business model — Google is in the software business and not the hardware business.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.