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Journalists are great at pattern recognition. It's a silly function we perform — this thing looks like that thing — and we usually do it to show off our vast institutional knowledge. Still, with the launch of the first "Google phone," it doesn't take a journalist to notice the obvious signs of history repeating itself. Is Steve Jobs, whose iPhone is the toast of the telecommunications world, doome

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developer-friendly Google Phone may spell the downfall of Apple's iPhone. Does this sound familiar? The T-Mobile G1 is but the first in what's bound to be a very long line of smartphones that will live in a wide-open ecosystem.

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G1 vs iPhoneを、PC/AT vs Apple II/Macに照らし合わせ。オープンは正義。