“Apple issued a press release [yesterday] morning, announcing that App Store downloads have now topped the 3 billion mark,” Rick Aristotle Munarriz writes for The Motley Fool.
“It’s certainly an impressive feat, given that Apple launched the applications marketplace only two summers ago,” Munarriz writes. “It took just six months to double up on the 1.5 billion downloads that the company chalked up during the App Store’s rookie year.”
“The timing of the press release is certainly no accident,” Munarriz writes. “This was supposed to be Google’s day. The world’s leading search engine has been prepping for [yesterday’s] Nexus One unveiling — but in steps Apple to hog some of the attention.”
Munarriz writes, “Apple has a funny — or tactically brilliant — way of crashing the party… There is no way that the timing of Apple’s press release is a coincidence. Jobs has plenty of practice in pulling the rug from under his competitors — and he just did it again.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Don’t mess with the master; especially by trotting out a bunch of unprepared fumbling stiffs to unveil your non-multi-touch entry in a long line of me-too iPhone clones:
Direct link to video here.
Google, your honeymoon is over. If you want so badly to be the next Microsoft, expect to be treated like them.
Perhaps Google has a bit too much market share for their own good?
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How about we stop using everything google??
lets search on yahoo
well we cant use the map app on the iphone because it uses google maps
and we can watch anything on youtube because thats owned by google too,
i think ill just stick with google and MDN cant SHUT THE FUCK UP because they have no idea what they are talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!
If this was April 1st, I would have thought it was a bad joke even then.
First off I would fire whoever came up with the idea of letting the VP engineering to present the phone. Absolutely painful.
Look I’m as a big an Apple enthusiast anyone, but all this vitriol for Google and other companies needs to end. Despising these companies and their products doesn’t make any of the Apple products I own any better, so I don’t see the point. Just enjoy your decision in knowing that by buying Apple, you help the company continue to innovate and release ground-breaking, market-defining new products.
Google is not anti-Apple. I find it hard to believe Google set out to try and kill the iPhone. Google has proven time and time again that Microsoft is the target. Google wanted to give handset makers an alternative to Windows Mobile, which has lagged so far behind now, it’s a little ridiculous and embarrassing.
As Google has stated, this is not a Goggle phone. It’s an HTC phone being marketed and sold through Google’s web-store. They will add other phones from other manufacturers for other carriers as they are made available. Google, just wanted a phone out there they could show off all Android’s features and keep up-to-date on a regular basis, as all the carriers have so far failed to do. This is Google’s attempt to take control of the Android platform and have devices with a direct to consumer path, which has been lacking so far and the reason the iPhone has been so successful.
The Nexus has less app memory (190MB according to NY TImes David Pogue) versus the 256MB app memory for the DROID, and currently the minimum app memory of the iPhone is 8GB for the 3G and 16GB for the 3GS, which is priced similarly to the Nexus.
It’s all about the app memory.
Holy Cramoly! That’s the worst presentation I’ve seen since Tommy the-Muffin-Man Garbo talked to my 5th grade class about Flower Arranging back in 84.
Dude. Duuuude. That was awful. Aaaaawful.
As many have pointed out, it’s too bad MDN has a hard time with Google getting into the phone business. There was talk of them doing something like this long before the iPhone ever was even announced. It’s no surprise, and like others, I think they will do the best they can to provide a great alternative.
From the looks of it, I’m certainly not a fan of the UI, but it is innovative, it’s not for me, but some will surely like it, and that is nothing but a good thing.
Again, as others have mentioned, the people that work at Google are geeks, that really do try, at least in their own minds, to make the world a better place. I think that’s great.
For those that don’t like their simplistic web interfaces, I might suggest you just don’t get it perhaps. The simple white, or whatever color you choose, background on the Google homepage is the ‘point’ and doesn’t need updating. And the gmail interface is fine as well.
I don’t think Apples announcement has done anything to minimize this announcement really. ANd this announcement of the Nexus One, while painful to watch I agree, illustrates that the Google guys are going to continue and try and innovate, like they have with search, email, web and many other ventures.
This is good for Apple, and will be good for all of us that love Apple.
Grow up MDN. Seriously.
I think it is funny how many people are defending Google. The reason MDN is dissing them is because Eric was on the Board of Apple and it appears the they have copied (Stolen), Apples short term road map. Eric has done a Bill Gates. If this is true, Steve intends to eat Googles launch. If it is not it may be a smoke screen attack against Microsoft. Make it look like they are fighting each other when the real intent is to take down Microsofty from two sides and squeeze Softy in the middle. Splat. Not sure yet.
If Google has screwed up we will know in a few years because Steve does not forgive quickly. He will sneak up on Google and compete with them in their own markets more elegantly. I look forwarded to watching this play out.
I also don’t see Google as the enemy. If they push Apple a bit, it is better for us all, and I don’t think the Mac-iPhone-iPod ecosystem has much to fear. I have participated in two Windows to Mac conversions this holiday season and have a third one waiting in the wings.
Mmmm, duh, we have a, uh, new phone, um, duh…
It’s called, um, the Nexus, and, um, let’s go into a bit of history on the word Nexus…
Jeeezus, what a piss-poor showing.
What a horrible presentation for a non-innovative device.
I used to wonder how Windows users could hate Apple, having never used an Apple product. A bunch of fanboi bigots that’s for sure.
I know virtually every MDN regular used Google search and maps and at one point loved them. Hell, the first time I used Multi-Plan/Excel on a Mac, I loved it and Microsoft too.
It took me many years and Windows ME to hate Microsoft.
I can’t see MDNers hating Google virtually overnight. WTF! What the hell happened to “Competition is good”?
Google is supplanting Windows Mobile, not iPhone. Give your heads a shake.
Nice “objective” commentary article [insert sarcasm here].
No doubt, these guys were stiff and unprepared (at worst) or uncomfortable with public speaking (at best) for this high level debut. But I think it would do your credibility to try to show just a bit of objectivity when comparing competitors to your “almighty iPhone.”
I’m a longtime Macbook user and have taken a person vow to never own another Microsoft operating system (I really despise those guys). But I don’t drink the kool-aid for all things Mac either. I want Apple to remain strong as company that offers great products. That requires me, the consumer, to keep it honest and objective and hold my favorite’s feet to the fire to keep things moving forward and not getting lazy or stale. No?
So my feedback would be–Less spin, more objectivity, share the pluses and minuses for both in an even presentation of information and let the reader decide…
Or show unbridled bias as the name of your site would suggest
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BTW… I forgot to mention, until I read this article, I heard nothing of the App news that you mentioned, but I sure heard a TON about the Nexus One phone. Not sure I agree with the whole “rug out from underneath Google” observation.
so, a company that provides quality free software is being compared with another company that provides crappy expensive software.. all because of what exactly?
So much hate, I must be missing some hidden agenda here.. which of you peasants picked up his pitchfork first?
Thanks MDN for your tip on Glims, that’s cool. Works great!
The suggestion on using Ixquick by another poster here looks interesting. It found my web pages so it can’t be all that bad. And it claims to not record your IP address.
That presentation was, well, uncomfortable to watch. I hope they put more work in the details of their product than they did into the presentation, although I doubt it.
this guy’s keynote is terrible… he speaks like he has a d””k in his mouth…. i felt like i was watching a 8th grader give his presentation about the constitution…