“Google engineering VP Vic Gundotra softened his approach to Apple today in a chat at the TCDisrupt conference,” Electronista reports. “He now claims that the warnings of a dystopic future and other clear references to Apple weren’t attacks. The statements on openness and choice were conducted only in a ‘spirit of good fun,’ Gundotra said.”
“The remarks are a slight backtrack from Google’s seemingly hostile stance at I/O and reflect a balance Google still has to strike in its approach,” Electronista reports. “While it supports Adobe’s Flash, it also embraces HTML5 and has a significant stake on the iPhone, where its maps and search are still important parts of the OS.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Good luck with that, Google-boy.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “jax44” for the heads up.]
I don’t know about other products, but Google Chrome is very fast on my Mac Pro.
@Mac-nugget
So is their data mining
Too late dickhead – that and Schmidt’s backstabbing have just cost Google their future. That was the straw that broke the camels backkkkkllll
tempest in a tea-cup..
nothing to see or hear.
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Yep, he said “I can’t predict what Apple will do in the future…”
…because Eric “the Mole” isn’t on Apple’s board
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@mac-nugget
and they’ve got your wireless router IP and MAC address to boot…can’t wait to see what happens when that data is inadvertently sold to a 3rd party and combined with other data from other 3rd parties
Is it me or is Google trying to serve two masters?
Google using people’s data……. No way!
G**gle = POS
I think they just remembered that Steve Jobs is probably gonna get out the old bullseye from Michael Dell, dust it off and put it on them, and I think they are right to be concerned. Steve does many things really well, but forgive and forget is not one of them!
G**gle = the NSA’s best friend
Chrome with Bing selected as the default search engine. Works like a charm. A FU to Vicky from moi.
Please, Lord, tell me this isn’t true.
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Did he really end a sentence with a proposition?
Opppppsss Please forgive me! I used the Double o’s
I think G••gle is trying to serve two masters. Open Standards & Closed Standards
@macsawg75
and who do you think buys this data? Apple maybe? Or is it a coincidence that since Streetview shows my house, my iPod touch identifies my location based a on available private WiFi networks?
@macdawg75
I am not worried about that I got Little Snitch
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It is too late for Gundotra to back track from his statements. A person at his level in the organization needs to realize that there is a level of responsibility and decorum that is expected in conducting the business of the organization. This includes his public statements. He went way over the line, and there are consequences for that type of behavior.
If you are worried about your privacy, as I am, you might want to take the Ixquick search engine for a spin. (http://us2.ixquick.com/eng/) Unlike Google, Ixquick is designed specifically to assure that your searches are anonymous, that no cookies are planted and that your originating IP address is not recorded. Visit their Web site for full details.
For the record, I am not some tin-foil-hat paranoid whack job. But for the same reason that I recently quit Facebook (and no changes to their privacy settings will change the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is a lying scumbag – he will try it again, that is a certainty), I have become quite concerned about the data collection of Google. And you should too. While my searches are pretty mundane and boring, it would be nice if my activities are not tracked and recorded.
At this rate, I might just join Hurley and Ben on the Island. Besides, it would be fun playing with Vincent.
He jumped (a sinking) ship from MSFT to Google. Now that Apple has overtaken MSFT in market, he is obviously laying groundwork to one day serve a new master.
I know that Apple made Google the default search engin in the past. You think that is going to change some? Didn’t Apple buy the Siri search system that I think that they will build the hooks into in the SDK program that makes the thousands of apps. Also, didn’t Apple buy and build their own ad software into the same SDK programing code.
Keep talking Google! Microsoft is under the bus. Adobe Flash is under the bus. There is always room for one more!
“[Google] has a significant stake on the iPhone, where its maps and search are still important parts of the OS.”
“Still” is the operative word. It would take very little effort on Apple’s part to completely alter that situation, and Google knows it.
Google makes its profit primarily by finding more ways to advertise to consumers, and by collecting and manipulating user data. Apple makes its profit primarily by selling hardware to users.
User experience is directly relevant to Apple’s motivation, and Apple works hard to improve user experience as much as possible; Apple’s motivation aligns with the customers’ motivation (to use products that offer the best experience).
For Google, its motivation runs counter to what its users want. Since most of Google’s user-facing products are free, those users aren’t even Google’s actual “customers.” Google’s real customers are advertisers (and whoever pays for all the user data Google collects). Users are the commodity that Google offers its paying customers.
So I tend to trust the company that is naturally motivated to offer its customers (the end users) the best possible experience, not the one that sells access its user base to the highest bidder.
@ Jafo
Have no idea if Apple buys data and who from but the ones I’m describing are Acxiom and others. Your iPod touch pulls its map location from Google…go figure
@Mac-nugget
You’re ahead of the crowd with Little Snitch
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What a dick.
In addition to Apple having a monopoly on well-designed “it just works” products, they also have a monopoly on execs who don’t induce vomiting. Gee, I wonder if those two facts are connected?
The issue of Apple’s latest “Whipping Boy” will be out June 7th… I wonder if it will be iPad compatible?!
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