For months now we have been bombarded with speculation about a “game changing” and “breakthrough” mobile phone from everyone’s favourite search engine company. The gPhone was gonna change the world. It was gonna kill the iPhone and Nokia N95 and other smart phones and eat their spare parts for lunch!

Instead - what we got last week was… well, in a word: nothing. Well, its actually the promise of something. A set of APIs and SDK that might or might not be useful to developers and mobile phone manufacturers that might or might not want to spend R&D money to create the next-generation mobile phone that might or might not work and might or might not be welcomed by end-users and might or might not become a global hit that Google hopes it will. So instead of a breakthrough gPhone that was gonna reverse Global Warming and end world hunger, instead we have the OpenHandJob Alliance and Android Army that sounds like something out of a B-Movie Porn Studio:

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Nothing shouts “we totally think this HandJob thing is gonna be successful” than bribing the developer community with tons of millions in prize money. Google: we get it, you’re fucking filthy rich. Dont rub it in. Go create something yourself for a change. Until then, I’ll stick with my iPhone thankyouverymuch.

Why should I as a developer create apps on a platform that might or might not take off? A software is only good if people actually use it, and last time I checked there were zero gPhones out there as opposed to about 2 million iPhones. And now since there is an iPhone SDK out, Id rather deveop my application for the iPhone. Sure there are better things currently on the HandJob Allience, like GPS and 3G, but whats to say Apple wont release a 3G iPhone by next year? Im betting on it.

This Alliance we released and the Google stock went thru the roof. Think about this for a minute. The stock went up without Google even releasing a product… Its only the promise of phone. Its a typical zombie mentality of Wall Street, anything Google does is immediately gobbled up and the stock goes through the roof. Hey, Im not complaining as I own Google stock so its good for me. But Im just saying that people can be so ignorant and jump on any band wagon that happens to the one all the supposed cool-cats are on. Learn to think for yourself for a change.

But of course Im gonna be completely wrong and will be eating my words in a few months when we start seeing these Android Death Stars around, eating up Metrosexual iPhones for lunch. Bon apetit!