“Just as Adobe is desperately trying to yell at the world, ‘Don’t buy into Apple’s walled garden, get locked into our own proprietary Flash,’ so is Google trying to misdirect consumers’ attention from its own monopolistic sins to Apple’s mobile platform where 100 million users voted with their own money to enjoy 200,000 apps,” Kontra writes. “The evil man behind the curtain in this scenario is not Apple’s curation, it’s the frightening prospect of Google getting cut off from search and ad revenue derived from its naked domination of the search box on top of your web browser. That, unfortunately, doesn’t sound like an appealing public cry, hence the ‘Curated Computing’ misdirection whining.”
Full article – highly recommended – here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Gabriel B.” for the heads up.]
Ah, somebody telling it like it is, refreshing to see the intelligence.
Is it me or is all this stone throwing and accusations starting to sound old and infantile? What a bunch of crybaby blabber! Yawn….
Apple “Curated Computing” vs. Microsoft Cauterized Computing.
Hmm….
Too bad that ad revenue is driving a lot of things, too bad for us all.
I would gladly pay for everything without ads. Gladly.
Apple strike fear in all the major players.
Microsoft just causes fear when you see an email arrive.
Google, knows they have a limited amount of time before the inside spy feast on Apples future plan fades away. Now they have to come up with there own idea of what Apple will release. They fear this much more than Microsoft and the dark jester Steve Ballmer.
Yup, Apple threw chum in the water with the iPhone, iPod, and iPad.
@ ploogman
Unfortunately, you are in the same tiny minority as I am. Most in the US follow the WalMart model: quality be damned, cheapest is best!
‘Not unexpectedly, this drew the attention of the anti-Apple echosystem that regards the Cupertino company as the evil incarnate.’
‘evil one, incarnate?
OK, who else had to open Dictionary and look up “curated” just to get the meaning of this story? Anyone, anyone? Bueller?
Yeah, like I’m the only one!
You have a typo. “Castrated”, not “cauterized”.
Cascadians input squared. If Apple’s devices were the only way to connect to the internet, then I could see some valid concerns. But that seems highly unlikely to ever be the case. I suspect that there will always be a significant number of Apple haters in addition to the contrarians who steer their course away from whatever is popular. Apple is and will continue to be dominant in the mobile space in many respects, at least for the next five to ten years. But I do not foresee another Microsoft level of dominance in the tech sector. Apple alternatives will also inevitably improve over time, if for no other reason then by more intelligently following Apple’s lead to the extent possible.
“Ecosystem”, not “echosystem”, though they both ring true.
oh, i hope she really meant echosystem, such a nice pun.
I think the author just tripled the number of times I’ve seen the word “curated” in my life.
Rosswell, no she meant echosystem. Your version doesn’t even make sense in context. Reread it.
Curate: from the Latin, Cura – care. Example: A museum curator takes care of the exhibits. There’s nothing to suggest any evil intentions in the word curate. It’s only in the mind of the Spin Doctor.
I did write “echosystem” because I meant to.
The fact that there is a web browser on every iPad and several more you can download, negates all of this bullshit. Just like porn, anything else on the web, with the possible exception of annoying Flash ads, can be seen on an iPod.
Mea culpa. Putting it in quotes would have made that clear.