Bernstein Research analyst Jeffrey Lindsay said in a research note that the phenomenal success of the iPhone, nearly 10 million units of which will ship through 2009 and whose Apple App Store offers more than 100,000 applications, has forced Google to take actions into its own hands in the smartphone market. Specifically, Google is creating the Nexus One as an unlocked alternative to existing Android phones, such as the successful Motorola Droid, to better challenge Apple’s iPhone dominance. BroadPoint AmTech analyst Ben Schachter sees Google’s move as a disruption in the space.
– The unstoppable success of Apple’s iPhone has pushed Google to create Nexus
One, a smartphone based on the Google Android operating system whose software
and features Google has built from the bottom up on hardware from HTC.
So claims one analyst.
Nexus One, which Google employees are testing, i…