to help design the hardware for Motorola when Motorola has supposedly been in the cellphone business for umpteen years? I can believe it though. I don't know what sort of a design team they have at Motorola, but they sure as well must not have been doing their job for the past several years. I guess that's what comes from backwards thinking or designs based on style and not function. Motorola has one seriously messed up cellphone division. I don't know about the rest of the divisions, but based on the company's share price, the cellphone is the only division that matters. I was hoping that if Google were to purchase Motorola, they would breathe life into a dying American company. No chance of that, I see.

Google tonight moved to quashed rumors that it would make its own smartphone.

"quash" shouldn't be in past tense.

Well, if we take a look closely at the Motorola Droid the impression we get is that of a boring, business phone. It doesn't speak out and reach out to customers and evoke a "I want to use it!" response. Look at the design! Look at the earphone port. Look at the clunky or should I say chunky bezel! What a shame. Again, none of these companies are really taking design and user experience seriously. They're merely falling back to slapping on new technologies on to the same old designs.

who writes this stuff?

What's up with Google with their "State of Denial?" If the phone is non-existent, they need to explain their cause of falling out with Steve and Apple's Board of Directors...

Falling out? Who knew they had a falling out? There was analyst concern over a conflict of interest, as Google is the main force behind Android (a mobile phone platform) and Apple has a competing product. Whether there was any actual conflict of interest is beyond the point, as it's the appearance that was the problem.

A falling out implies name calling, people being escorted from the building, etc. The guy left on his own accord (in fact, even if it was Steve who wanted him gone, he could do nothing about it, since Steve didn't hire him, the stockholders did, and they voted him in for a full year).

It's too bad Intuit doesn't make any decent products for the Mac. Then maybe we could have a way to escort mr. campbell out of the building.

Maybe if we start putting out rumors that Apple is working on a Finance app, the analysts will pick up on it and insist on him stepping down.