“Two digs at its rival was probably appropriate,” Swisher writes. “Three, welllll, okay, if you insist.”
Swisher writes, “Unfortunately, the continued verbal jousts at Apple by many Google execs–including CEO Eric Schmidt–onstage at the San Francisco developers conference got tired pretty quickly and soon felt petty and juvenile, and ultimately made Google look needlessly defensive.”
MacDailyNews Take: Needlessly? We beg to differ. Consider two words and Google’s future doesn’t look so bright: “Verizon iPhone.” Without the iPhone being tied to AT&T in the U.S., Android faces the same fate as it does in the rest of the world: Bloodbath. If those two words don’t float your boat, here are two more: “Patent Infringement.” Last quarter, Google generated half the revenue that Apple generated. Apple’s current market value exceeds Google’s by $70 billion. That’s “billion,” with a “b.” Google had better be defensive, at the very least. If they’re not simply consumed by hubris, then their public bluster masks fear.
Swisher continues, “Still, there was Google Engineering VP Vic Gundotra – doing his best imitation of a geek Gary Cooper – noting in this video below that ‘“if Google did not act, we faced a Draconian future in which one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice. That’s a future we don’t want.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Continuing on with the former Microsoftie Gundotra‘s train of thought: Because then we wouldn’t be able to monopolize mobile advertising, especially as mobile device users seem predisposed to use dedicated apps over random Web search.
Swisher continues, “As they say so eloquently on the ‘Really!?! With Seth and Amy’ segment on Saturday Night Live: ‘Reaaaaaallly!?! Reaaaaaallly!?!'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Google. A bunch of amateurs.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.,” “Edward W.,” and “jax44” for the heads up.]
That’s nice, Jacob626. But it doesn’t really matter what you think. And it doesn’t even matter if you are right or wrong. Nothing has changed one iota since your post, and it won’t as long as SJ is CEO. So you can either live with nagging frustration or go find somewhere else to play. I hear that Android phones will let you run anything that you want – if you can find the app and it is compatible with the version of Android that you are running and…well, I suppose that will be frustrating for you, too.
It sucks to be Jacob626…
“I don’t like Steve jobs telling me what apps I can put on my phone.”
Then jailbreak it.
Oh wait. If you jailbroke it, then you couldn’t pretend to be outraged that “Steve Jobs is telling you what apps you can put on your phone” anymore.
Hah hah, silly me… I don’t know where by head is.
Google is hiding behind the “do no evil” and “open source” masks to commit nefarious activities on others. When caught it always pleaded that no harm was done and that everyone was making a fuss over nothing. Google is dangerous. It wants to control every channel of the world’s information and in doing so, it is prepared to remove every obstacle that gets into its way. What better way to endear itself to the unsuspecting public than to pretend that it is giving away free goodies to everyone? Nothing is free. Google peddles information to the highest bidder to earn obscene ads profits from advertisers, which pushes the cost to the final consumers. Also Google restricts competition on those whose space it decides to kill off. A small competitor whose product is superior to Google’s good-enough free goodies cannot be expected to ward off Google’s use of money diplomacy.
Another potential backlash of Google’s cavalier and wild wild West method of competition is that it would transform America’s corporations into mediocre don’t-take-the-risk breed of businesses. As was exemplified by Microsoft’s monopoly over the OS market, every manufacturer that jumped on the Window’s bandwagon decided to stop innovating and to just produce commodity-type PC boxes. They contracted out the design and production of the PC boxes to Asian competitors and just slapped their labels on the boxes to distinguish themselves from the rest. In the end it is a loss to America and a gain to Asian competitors as they move up the value chain. Google is repeating the same mistake of Microsoft and this will affect badly on America’s competitiveness.
Since Google’s stranglehold on the world’s information is enormous, the bad it could do with all the information is unimaginable. It could use its clout to punish those who oppose it. It can also punish governments and act as a Fifth Column to its own country to further its own agendas. Google is evil … its wings must be clipped before the world is trapped inside the Google’s gulag.
Google to Apple:
“We reject your reality and insert our own perpetual beta version of it.
“Vic Gundotra, a general manager for platform evangelism at Microsoft and a 15-year employee”
Because of brick-heads like Vic in MS, things like Windows Vista or the heavily patched Windows 7 exist.