Mobile Future

Unless you're hopelessly dedicated to a landline-only existence, you're going to read a fair amount about the >">G1, a.k.a. the Google Phone.

But the biggest thing to bear in mind is that this phone was not primarily designed to solve a problem that you, the consumer, are having. Rather it was designed to solve a problem that Google has—namely, the need to keep feeding more and more people into the maw of Google's online advertising machine.

Google dominates the search business with a 71-percent market share, according to researcher Hitwise.

n other words, the phone is a Trojan horse. You get a cool phone for not much money—$179 with a contract from T-Mobile—but then you're caught in Google's Web. Another way to see this is that a quasi-monopolist (Google rules the online advertising business) is attempting to protect and extend its quasi-monopoly by giving away at no cost something for which others charge money. Go to the source