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Reactions to Gruber: Hypocrisy, pure and simple.

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Sorta, but Google so often touts their Galaxy Nexuses [sp?] as a pure Android experience, without any carrier meddling. Only, it’s not “pure” anymore

If memory serves me right only the Nexus One was touted as a carrier-separate experience. I don’t find anything from Google about the Nexus S or the Galaxy Nexus advertising it as anything but “a phone from Google”. The phrases “Pure Google” or “Pure Android” aren’t used by Google, only analysts and bloggers.

Do you know what happens when you assume?

To reiterate, this is nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking without casting the same eye toward Apple. Wasn’t the whole goal of the iPhone in the first place to do away with carrier meddling? And, to repeat myself again, when was the last time you tethered your iPhone to your iPad for free/without paying the carrier for the privilege?

Tethering directly substitutes for carrier aircard functionality which you would pay for too, so yeah, carriers are going to have a say about that.

This sorta reminds me of iMessage. What if Apple had come out with that great feature that allowed users to bypass traditional SMS and MMS through the carriers, then pulled it because the carriers pitched a hissy? That’s what it looks like Google did.

(Source: daringfireball.net)