“In one of the rare interviews he has granted as CEO, [Google’s Larry] Page recently discussed thinking big and other Googley issues with Wired at the company’s Mountain View, California, headquarters,” Steve Levy reports for Wired.
A snippet:
Wired: Steve Jobs felt competitive enough to claim that he was willing to ‘go to thermonuclear war’ on Android.
Android can be widespread and still demographically inferior precisely because of the way in which and to whom Android devices are marketed. Unending BOGO promos attract a seemingly unending stream of cheapskate freetards just as inane, pointless TV commercials about robots or blasting holes in concrete walls attract meatheads and dullards, not exactly the best demographics unless you’re peddling muscle building powders or grease monkey overalls.
Google made a crucial mistake: They gave away Android to “partners” who pushed and continue to push the product into the hands of the exact opposite type of user that Google needs for Android to truly thrive. Hence, Android is a backwater of second-rate, or worse, app versions that are only downloaded when free or ad-supported – but the Android user is notoriously cheap, so the ads don’t sell for much because they don’t work very well. You’d have guessed that Google would have understood this, but you’d have guessed wrong. Google built a platform that depends heavily on advertising support, but sold it to the very type of customer who’s the least likely to patronize ads.
iOS users are the ones who buy apps, so developers focus on iOS users. iOS users buy products, so accessory makers focus on iOS users. iOS users have money and the proven will to spend it, so vehicle makers focus on iOS users. Etcetera.
Android can have the “Hee Haw” demographic. Apple doesn’t want it or need it; it’s far more trouble than it’s worth.
Larry Page:
Are you going senile?
Or are you drowning in a vat of narcism?
Either way: The future is going to hurt.
Please bail the EVIL out of your soggy ship and get Google sailing again. Start emulating Apple instead or ripping off Apple. Give yourselves a corporate enema and flush away the Microsoft. You’ll be much happier.
Larry, I’d call Michael Dell for some advice…Steve Jobs put a bullseye on Dell after his statement.
Your statement is like calling Michael Jordan a wussy just before the game starts.
Second, two CEO’s did a happy dance when Steve Jobs died: Larry Page and Steve Ballmer. Both had dollar signs bulging out of their eyes as they danced. However, Ballmer’s proven he can’t even manage a return to the top with SJ out of the way.
I have an ex-client who became a millionaire in the IT sector. As soon as he was earthy his whole approach to life reversed. He treated people like crap, he believed he was the only person that created his success when I face is was suppliers and employees, he started taking drugs, picking up girls half his age and screwing around even though his loving and loyal wife of 18 yrs was always there for him, he became a total control freak.
Look a his life now : his loving wife has left him as she caught him in bed in their house with a 19 yea old blond student who pretended to be pregnant to fleece th guy out of a lot of his money, his ex-wife is now married to a very loving (and not rich) average looking guy. She is so happy now.
He on the other hand – his business is failing, he lives alone in a massive house that is full of memories of his loving and loyal wife, he still can’t accept she left him and th guy has been arrested on many accessions – one being drugged up to the the balls wandering around a local village ith a loaded shotgun.
Makes you ask th question. “Is being rich worth it?”
I hope one day that he chokes on that statement!
Android is dying:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1007921-android-is-dead-part-1-why
Excellent link, Thanks Farkas !
Well, how is Samsung doing on that new mobile OS of theirs? I heard rumors that they maybe leaving that busted Android fork on the side of the road.
Seriously, Larry, Mr. Ed, Page may not to prose Apple like Micheal Dell did. Time can do wonders on the ignorant.
What a weasel, he didn’t have the balls to make such a statement while Steve Jobs was still alive.
It’s called high lip line and can be corrected with surgery, mostly.
Probably not high on his list though.
Larry, Larry, Larry… There is no thermonuclear war, you’d see a whole new game if there was.
“Siri, what do you think of Google?”
“Sorry, Sari, I’m afraid I can’t answer that.”
Awww, our Siri is such a diplomat! Larry P. could learn a thing or two from her.
Hmmm How is that advertising revenue Larry after losing Siri and the loss of maps is gonna bite you right in the a$$le. We will see soon!
Just wait a little bit longer Larry. The alternatives are coming and they will steal marketshare only from Android:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57564553-94/samsungs-secret-weapon-in-the-mobile-wars-tizen/
Tesco are after him to put him in their cheap burgers.
I think it’s working very well and will work even better as time goes on.
But my question to Larry would be – How is it workin out for you making money on Android?
Larry sure didn’t have the b@lls to say that, while Steve was alive!
Larry Page:
Are you going senile?
Or are you drowning in a vat of narcism?
Either way: The future is going to hurt.
Please bail the EVIL out of your soggy ship and get Google sailing again. Start emulating Apple instead or ripping off Apple. Give yourselves a corporate enema and flush away the Microsoft. You’ll be much happier.
Yes I spelled it right! ‘Narcism’ or ‘narcissism’ are both correct and self-destructive. Ironic, isn’t it.
Larry, I’d call Michael Dell for some advice…Steve Jobs put a bullseye on Dell after his statement.
Your statement is like calling Michael Jordan a wussy just before the game starts.
First Larry Page’s teeth gross me out.
Second, two CEO’s did a happy dance when Steve Jobs died: Larry Page and Steve Ballmer. Both had dollar signs bulging out of their eyes as they danced. However, Ballmer’s proven he can’t even manage a return to the top with SJ out of the way.
Money does corrupt.
I have an ex-client who became a millionaire in the IT sector. As soon as he was earthy his whole approach to life reversed. He treated people like crap, he believed he was the only person that created his success when I face is was suppliers and employees, he started taking drugs, picking up girls half his age and screwing around even though his loving and loyal wife of 18 yrs was always there for him, he became a total control freak.
Look a his life now : his loving wife has left him as she caught him in bed in their house with a 19 yea old blond student who pretended to be pregnant to fleece th guy out of a lot of his money, his ex-wife is now married to a very loving (and not rich) average looking guy. She is so happy now.
He on the other hand – his business is failing, he lives alone in a massive house that is full of memories of his loving and loyal wife, he still can’t accept she left him and th guy has been arrested on many accessions – one being drugged up to the the balls wandering around a local village ith a loaded shotgun.
Makes you ask th question. “Is being rich worth it?”