Yup. Another feature competitors have, that we won’t see here, is integration with VoIP and phone apps – if someone calls your home number, you can respond on your mobile. You have an app where you can see who called when – and listen to the recordings of the answering machine. Essentially competitors have self-hosted Google Voice, Google has... well, US-only Google Voice.
Since you're quite obviously an AVM fan (given that you promote their product all over the thread) and it seems you're referring to them here as well (the "phone app" integration is a historical emphasis/accident of that company, given that they got into the DSL-Modem business by expanding from their telephone systems and ISDN cards, and much more of an issue for them than for any other vendor of dsl/cable/wifi modem/router thingies):
Outside the German (speaking) market AVM doesn't matter much. And looking at the tiny selection on the German version of http://store.google.com, the German market doesn't matter much to Google.
That's market segmentation at work, and OnHub likely won't be a threat to your favorite DSL modem brand (and it isn't a DSL modem, btw)
Well, it’s not my favourite brand or anything, the issue I’m just seeing is that I’d like to see a good deal from Google.
And what we’re seeing here is that a lot of people say "this router is awesome", "it does so much and is so cheap", "there’s no other router with that performance", and I’m just here, facepalming.
It’s an upper-mid-range device in an oversaturated market, not something worth hundreds of reviews and articles.
Tbh, I don’t care about AVM – the Fritz!Box 7490 was just the first router I could find with a similar featureset and similar price.
Also, the Google Store is even more empty in many other countries – US, Canada, sometimes UK, NZ and AUS get the nice products. Some european countries still have no Google Books, Google Movies, Google Music, or even the ability to buy Nexus devices.
Google voice is amazing! I travel all over the world, in fact, haven't been to the US for two years, and I haven't found anything as good and cheap (free).
Well, it’s not available for people outside of the US, so it’s natural that competitors spring up. And, usually not having the same server infrastructure Google has, it usually ends up as a self-hosted solution.
