James Siminoff

TrojanDroid

Last week I was at the CTIA, the wireless association, show.  The amount of focus on Google’s Android platform at the show was mind boggling.  Everywhere you looked there were people in droid costumes, droid banners, even a 20 foot high blow up droid at the entrance.

And the craziest part, Google was not the one pushing Droid at CTIA it was, Motorola, Samsung, HTC, Verizon, etc.

WTF are these people thinking?  Droid is not some platform backed by a innocent Finnish programmer, it is a project owned by Google.  The same company that launched GoogleVoice a free voice application which strips all value off of the carrier besides being a dumb pipe.  I know that they believe they can differentiate themselves enough on the platform to stand out but I think that is total BS.

At least I am not the only one who is thinking along these lines. Stacey Higginbotham’s post in GigaOm yesterday “Why Google & Verizon Won’t Be BFF’s Forever” has some great points around this. 

I think when it is too late, Google’s partners are going to look back and reflect on how Google took a free ride on their infrastructure into the mobile space.