Tuesday October 28th 2008

9:15PM | Marketing Fail

t the beginning of last week, Google released its first competitor to the iPhone: the Android-powered G1 is its name. T-Mobile is the only service provider for this phone right now. Curious to see the G1's features (again), I clicked through a link to the T-Mobile website for a G1 feature tour. The T-Mobile website was using an embedded Youtube video to show off the G1's features, and that is appropriate since it's a Google phone and Youtube is owned by Google. But the funny thing is that on this big release day for Google's hyped entry into the superphone market, the T-Mobile webpage with the embedded Youtube video served up this:

Screenshot of T-Mobile webpage showing that the Youtube video has been removed

FAIL

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