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By on December 22, 2008

Merry Christmas Googlers! Here’s a Bribe to Stop Using Your iPhone

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If you’re Google, how do you subtly tell your thousands of employees that they should abandon their iPhone and instead use the company’s–lesser–Android phone?

How about dishing out HTC Dream Android phones to employees as Christmas presents? That’s exactly what Google appears to have done:

We’ve never developed anything like the Android software before, so this represented a unique opportunity to celebrate that achievement," a Google spokesperson told ZDNet.com.au today.

Apart from spreading Christmas cheer, having all the employees using the phone would help make Android better, the spokesperson continued. "Giving the Dream phone to Googlers also allows us to once again dog food a product and make it even better."

Is this a fabulous gift–that Googlers will love–or, just an attempt to force iPhone lovers to make the switch? ;-)


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6 comments on “Merry Christmas Googlers! Here’s a Bribe to Stop Using Your iPhone”

  1. Dobes Vandermeer - Clarity Accounting Says:

    December 22nd, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    Now if only they would give a free Android phone to applications developers like myself, they might get some more 3rd-party support as well.

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  2. Terry Howard Says:

    December 22nd, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    Or…. they’ll just give some lucky friend or relative an awesome Christmas gift and keep using their iPhone.

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  3. PS3 Says:

    December 22nd, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    What a fantastic gift, what do you have to do to get a job at Google these days?

  4. thewutzupphilippines Says:

    December 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 pm

    what a great gift from google. my boss only gave me gift cheques for christmas which is not bad since i love to shop

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  5. Web Design Beach Says:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 3:41 am

    Well, that is a smart move indeed, as i am sure, not everyone would switch from Iphone to Android with easy.

  6. DF Marketing SEO Says:

    January 16th, 2009 at 10:48 am

    LOL. That is pretty neat – I like companies that take care of their employees. If a company takes care of their customers and their employees, they are unstoppable.