Today, John Gruber from Daring Fireball is asking Andy Rubin what he has to say for himself now, since he predicted that Google wouldn’t make its own Android phone.
As far as I can tell, Google isn’t making its own Android phone. It hired HTC to build it a phone that will be sold through T-Mobile. How is that any different from the G-1? The Hero? The myTouch? The Droid? Sure, Google may sell an unsubsidized version for an astronomical price as well on its own, but that’s neither novel nor likely to change sales figures by much.
Again, the Google zealots are letting themselves be spun into a frenzy over nothing. Two months ago, the Droid was god’s gift to the mobile phone universe. Today, it’s Nexus One. Tomorrow it’ll be some other phone. We’ve been here before.
