“For a company that is busy building its own cellphone operating system, Google shared a lot of love for the iPhone on its earnings-related conference call today,” Saul Hansell reports for The New York Times.
“The most heartwarming story came from Sergey Brin, the company’s co-president, who said that he uses an iPhone himself. He described the value of the My Location feature of Google Maps on the iPhone,” Hansell reports.
“‘I was at a conference in Switzerland,’ he said, presumably referring to the World Economic Forum conference in Davos,” Hansell reports. “‘I was able to find a really small hotel, then switch over to the satellite view on my phone to figure out I needed to take a funicular to get up there. It was a really amazing experience.'”
“Google has said that it is now getting more Web traffic from the iPhone than from any other type of mobile device,” Hansell reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Famous Grouse” for the heads up.]
I really love my iPhone. I use it all the time to win bets with friends and to send texts and check to see if my classes are cancelled or not. Do I get my own headline too?
Scott,
One would assume that if you are the co-founder of a multibillion dollar company which is soon to offer its own cell phone OS, but you still choose an Apple iPhone and publicly extoll its virtues, you’ll get your own headline, too.
If you’re not, don’t hold your breath.
I had to look it up, and there are several possible definitions. This one seemed to be the most appropriate:
Funicular – a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
I wonder if it’s hacked?
“Google has said that it is now getting more Web traffic from the iPhone than from any other type of mobile device.” (Google)
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.” (Ballmer)
@KingMel
Right. They are pretty common in Swiss…
“take a funicular to get up there. It was a really amazing experience.'”
Just love those funiculars.
Fred,
I am not the head of a multi-billion dollar company…yet. I will get there.
I thought it was Latin for funnel cake. Pliny the Elder demanded fresh funicular just as Vesuvius blew.
Ampar,
“Pliny the Elder”.
Is he any relation to Shiny the Old?
You know, that geezer that’s always whining about ‘glossy’.
@KingMel
Had to look it up? One of the greatest features in OS X is to just hover your cursor over a word and press “Command Ctrl D” for an instant dictionary entry. It has actually enhanced my overall vocabulary since it’s so easy to get a definition, instantly.
@Ampar – wow, Pliny the Elder. I haven’t heard his name mentioned in a long time. Medieval history buff?
Here’s one. The funicular from Lauterbrunnen to Wengen in Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. I’ve been on it, too!
Lots of stuff, Steve. But I’m definitely not buff. Or glossy.
LorD1776: Shiny the Old, with straw in mouth and bloodhound by his side, is guarding his porch with a shotgun. The oldest expression known to mankind is “Hey, you kids! Get off my lawn!”
The iPod Touch is also an awesome device. For homework and study sessions, these “tricorders” of today comes in really handy for students.
I think he loves everybody’s iPhone…….
Just my $0.02
“take a funicular to get it up there”
I will leave it to you guys to come up with the quips.
My son LOVES his iPhone.
It’s never more than 3 feet from him.
Ampar:
Pliny the Elder lived in the 15th century. Mt. Vesuvius’ most recent eruption at the time was in the middle to late !st century.
“Soon afterwards [Pliny the Elder] received from Vespasian the appointment of praefect of the Roman Navy at Misenum. On August 24, 79 A.D., he was stationed at Misenum, at the time of the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which overwhelmed Pompeii and Herculaneum. A desire to observe the phenomenon directly, and also to rescue some of his friends from their perilous position on the shore of the Bay of Naples, led to his launching his galleys and crossing the bay to Stabiae (near the modern town of Castellammare di Stabia). His nephew, whom he had adopted, Pliny the Younger, provided an account of his death, and suggested that he collapsed and died through inhaling poisonous gases emitted from the volcano. However, Stabiae was 16 km from the vent and his companions were apparently unaffected by the fumes, and so it is more likely that the corpulent Pliny died through a different cause, such as a stroke or heart attack. His body was found interred under the ashes of the Vesuvium with no apparent injuries on 26 August, after the plume had dispersed sufficiently for daylight to return.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder#Vesuvius
P.S. “Gaius or Caius Plinius Secundus, (AD 23 – August 24, AD 79), better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Naturalis Historia. He believed that ‘true glory consists of doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read’.”
“‘true glory consists of doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read’.”
I think Zune Tang said that first.
“…writing what deserves to be read.”
Unlike most of the posts here. (Current company excepted, of course.)
“Unlike most of the posts here.”
Well, excuuuuse me!
Ampar,
So OMM is Dvorak. Now it all makes sense.