Googlezon .. a vision of our future?
For those of you who have seen the flash film ‘Googlezon’’, the future is coming.
Google have recently released the Google phone, G1, after blatently denying they were creating it only a year ago. The phone is similar to the iPhone in that it has a large screen and makes viewing the net on your mobile phone easier. The company hopes to generate $US20 billion in revenue this year from selling ads that are shown on mobile devices.
Yahoo and Microsoft are also investing in the mobile market in an attempt to prevent Google from continuing the dominance it already holds in online searches from PCs.
In a move representative of Googlezon, one of the initial applications on the G1 phone will allow users to download songs from a music store operated by Amazon.Inc. Perhaps as a point of difference, these songs will have no copy protection once they are downloaded, unlike iTunes.
What does this mean?
