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What’s the argument here?  Don’t even consider trying to clone one of Steve’s babies.  If you were a friend, you will be an enemy.  And it will be personal.

Google’s online-only phone selling model has failed | Googling Google | ZDNet.com.

Andy Ihnatko talks about Google’s Nexus One and how it fits in with the competition  Here’s an important snippet: The touchscreen is a serious source of concern. I frequently needed to tap buttons more than once to get the Nexus to recognize the tap. Just as often, an app would think I’d tapped an item [...]

Mobile ads are where it’s at.  Mobile OSes, apps, form factors, advertising – all of it – will likely step in front of every other computing space as the harbinger of what’s next in the entire industry.  And since advertising in this space is anything but mature, the Apple versus Google battle here will perhaps [...]

Probably not, but who knows.  Don’t forget, the Google Nexus is HTC-developed hardware with the Google brand on it.  That’s not exactly the same approach Apple takes in developing literally every aspect of the devices they sell from hardware to software. And it probably means there’ll only be close competition until anyone else dedicates themselves [...]

16 Things I Like about the Google Nexus One (and 8 I don’t).

Perhaps AppleInsider isn’t the place you’d normally go for unbiased analysis, but this is a pretty detailed summary for anyone looking at all three phones. AppleInsider | Google Nexus One vs Apple iPhone 3GS.

More great stuff, including this: ‘Here’s word from a friend of mine — a smart phone whore — who had a Nexus One for a month and didn’t tell me until this morning. Still, his reactions are informed and represent a month of experience. “I’m not too impressed with it as a phone, ” says [...]

‘So on Thursday the new Google Nexus One smartphone was going to turn the mobile business model on its head, and some ardent Google fans even thought it was a groundbreaking handset design. By Friday, there was already mounting anger among programmers and target consumers, about delays in the software developers’ kit (SDK), poor support [...]

The Nexus One is generating a lot of (quite unnecessary) buzz and if you haven’t already stumbled upon the YX question, you very soon will — “Is the Nexus the real iPhone killer?” I say it’s nonsense. In time we’ll see detailed teardowns of the Nexus, and while geeks will compare its screen and processor to other [...]