conshmillo
9:56 am on February 10, 2012 99 days agoReply
I warned about google’s strategy for developers when they encourage use of latest libraries/code linked directly to Goggle’s servers instead of downloading and localizing them on your own server. It is act of creating a huge dependency on google for a little ‘convenience’. I remember how Google’s popularity was spreading by word of mouth only a mere decade ago. They’ve been IT! So much better than Yahoo, great open source supporter etc. A great people’s company. A do no evil company.
It is already a few years already I know this is not true, the entrepreneur google is gone, privacy is gone, do no evil is gone. Funny thing is that as predicted they used the ‘open source’ crowd to gain the hegemony. They just used it to become what they are, and all of the nice fairy tales they used are becoming privacy horror flick. Corporate control freak. They know too much about everyone and they will leverage it in a worse way imaginable. Selling your detailed profiles to the highest bidder.
Good thing is I believe they will be eventually disrupted. Apple is strategically superior company to Google and Google chose to pick up a fight with Apple. Apple managed to put it’s foot in the door of the biggest telecommunications behemoth AT&T and get them over few years in a situation where Apple’s hardware dictates what goes on the phone. Not AT&T. Not a small feat if you consider that just few years back telecommunication companies ruled every aspect of their business. From hardware to connection to content. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in Jobs’ will to take Google out for that Schmidt’s back stab.
Birra
1:57 pm on February 10, 2012 99 days agoReply
Great synopsis showing how both Page and Gates see everyone else as the enemy whom must be destroyed in order for them to survive. It always surprises me that there are so many folks who continue to be avid supporters of these companies. But it comes down to the basic human nature. We all like to think of ourselves as being ‘good’ meanwhile half the time or more we will opt to respond to those who challenge our perceived survival with an approach that could only be summarized as ‘evil’. Once you take that approach nothing can make you turn back. The end is self destruction but how much devastation Google will wrought before that happens is unknown.
Importantly though, the article indicates Pages sentiments re Siri: A phone is a tool for contact, not a personal assistant. I’m glad that’s how he feels… because I don’t want to text or phone etc if I don’t have to.
I just noticed an article rumoring on G.Fin. that by next month Apple will announce Siri will support Chinese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Korean.
conshmillo 9:56 am on February 10, 2012 99 days ago Reply
I warned about google’s strategy for developers when they encourage use of latest libraries/code linked directly to Goggle’s servers instead of downloading and localizing them on your own server. It is act of creating a huge dependency on google for a little ‘convenience’. I remember how Google’s popularity was spreading by word of mouth only a mere decade ago. They’ve been IT! So much better than Yahoo, great open source supporter etc. A great people’s company. A do no evil company.
It is already a few years already I know this is not true, the entrepreneur google is gone, privacy is gone, do no evil is gone. Funny thing is that as predicted they used the ‘open source’ crowd to gain the hegemony. They just used it to become what they are, and all of the nice fairy tales they used are becoming privacy horror flick. Corporate control freak. They know too much about everyone and they will leverage it in a worse way imaginable. Selling your detailed profiles to the highest bidder.
Good thing is I believe they will be eventually disrupted. Apple is strategically superior company to Google and Google chose to pick up a fight with Apple. Apple managed to put it’s foot in the door of the biggest telecommunications behemoth AT&T and get them over few years in a situation where Apple’s hardware dictates what goes on the phone. Not AT&T. Not a small feat if you consider that just few years back telecommunication companies ruled every aspect of their business. From hardware to connection to content. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in Jobs’ will to take Google out for that Schmidt’s back stab.
Birra 1:57 pm on February 10, 2012 99 days ago Reply
Great synopsis showing how both Page and Gates see everyone else as the enemy whom must be destroyed in order for them to survive. It always surprises me that there are so many folks who continue to be avid supporters of these companies. But it comes down to the basic human nature. We all like to think of ourselves as being ‘good’ meanwhile half the time or more we will opt to respond to those who challenge our perceived survival with an approach that could only be summarized as ‘evil’. Once you take that approach nothing can make you turn back. The end is self destruction but how much devastation Google will wrought before that happens is unknown.
Zee 2:17 pm on February 10, 2012 99 days ago Reply
Importantly though, the article indicates Pages sentiments re Siri: A phone is a tool for contact, not a personal assistant. I’m glad that’s how he feels… because I don’t want to text or phone etc if I don’t have to.
Zee 2:26 pm on February 10, 2012 99 days ago Reply
I just noticed an article rumoring on G.Fin. that by next month Apple will announce Siri will support Chinese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Korean.