Replied to: Dreamworld discussion: Should Google buy T-Mobile?

February 17 2012, 1:25pm

Would I switch my carrier to a google-owned T-Mobile, and buy a googled-owned Motorola phone running a google-supported Android OS, and love it? Yup. Do I think it's right? Nope.Would it save the carrier and sky-rocket the underdog into 1st place? Quite possibly, on par with AT&T and Verizon at the very least. At least at first, but It would likely force Apple into either doing the same or partnering heavily with one carrier. Sound familiar? AT&T? It was the release of Android that really brought Verizon up as a competitor when AT&T+iPhone were owning the game. Do we really want to go back to the days when you had to pick your carrier based on the phone you wanted? With everyone bogging down a single carrier again.Honestly I didn't think it was even fair to the other phone manufacturers for Google to buy Motorola, let alone if they did it with a carrier as well. It's like they went "here's an open source OS, any manufacturer/carrier can put it on their phone" and turned around and said "we bought these guys, oh it's still open source, but really, who do you think we're gonna favor now?".Motorola were the ones complaining how it wasn't fair that Google was picking other carriers as the flagship Nexus phones; it makes it hard to get Android tweaked to run properly on their hardware and get updates out when Google optimizes Android for their Nexus manufacturer's chipsets: http://www.droid-life.com/2012/02/09/motorola-googles-nexus-hardware-choice-to-blame-for-slow-android-upgrades/ , now we'll likely see the same problem for the other manufacturers.