“Google Inc. is on a mission to make its Android mobile software ubiquitous,” Brian Womack and Mark Milian report for Bloomberg. “In a series of announcements yesterday at its annual developer conference, Google unveiled a new version of the software for handsets and tablets and showed it in use in smartwatches, cars and a new television service..”
“That puts Android, already the world’s top operating system for smartphones, not only into gadgets that people carry with them wherever they go, but also increasingly into their living rooms, onto their bodies and in how they transport themselves,” Womack and Miian report. “Google wants to provide a ‘seamless experience across all these connected devices,’ Android chief Sundar Pichai said at yesterday’s event in San Francisco. ‘We’re making everything contextually aware. We want to know when you’re at home, with your kids.'”
“Earlier this month, Apple showed how its iOS software for the iPad and iPhone and its Mac operating system are increasingly working together, with a customer able to answer a call to an iPhone on his or her iMac. Apple is also looking to get into smartwatches to broaden its product ecosystem,” Womack and Milian report. “‘With Apple already in the TV and car space and rumored to be attacking wearables, Google doesn’t want developers to have any excuse to choose Apple’s ecosystem over Android,’ Carl Howe, an analyst with the Yankee Group, wrote in an e-mail. ‘Therefore, Google wants to ensure that it is in all those places too.’ Yet Google’s strategy of putting Android everywhere is risky, Howe said. A race for ubiquity doesn’t mean Google will necessarily create the best products in each category, he said. Given that Google makes no revenue from the software, ‘it could easily lose money by winning,’ he added.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Google is certainly tone deaf when it comes to privacy. Many will avoid their products because of it. Google is a data vampire. For personal data, especially. Trust us, Google will never know when we’re at home, with our kids.
Google’s OS for everything will result in an inferior experience, with security issues, compatibility issues, fragmentation issues that Apple product users simply will not have to suffer. Google will end up with the world’s most ubiquitous OS. Apple will continue to own the valuable customers – those with money, the proven will to spend it, and the smarts to own the seamless, superior, and safer solutions. The users for whom developers write their best stuff.
Ask Microsoft how this race turns out.
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Android users poorer, shorter, unhealthier, less educated, far less charitable than Apple iPhone users – November 13, 2013
F-Secure: Android accounted for 99% of new mobile malware in Q1 2014 – April 30, 2014
Google’s Sundar Pichai: Android not designed to be safe; if I wrote malware, I’d target Android, too – February 27, 2014
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I can’t believe there are so many people who don’t have a problem with an advertising agency tracking their every movement. It’s even stranger that the advertising agency has A LOT of very vocal, hardcore fans
Stupid is as stupid does.
Guugle wants to know when its victims are having bowel movements.
I’ll call them and let them know. From my iPhone.
“has A LOT of very vocal, hardcore fans”
Correction…
Google has A LOT of very vocal, hardcore Apple-haters.
These were the same people who “loved” everything Windows, because Microsoft is/was the anti-Apple in the PC space.
I’m actually glad Google stole iOS and pissed off Steve Jobs. Apple would have a much harder time controlling Google’s privacy invasions if they had a working relationship with them.
It’s funny how they’re dropping the pretense and just letting the flat out creepy underneath shine through. Sure, you can watch my kids, uncle Google!
Can you say “the dumbing down of America”?
They’re so blatant because as long as they have Apple, they don’t have to worry about the government breathing down their necks over shit like this.
I just wish Apple had a search engine that allowed us to cut Google from our lives entirely by unleashing Siri. And don’t give me that crap about the alternatives, they’re atrocious especially on iOS. There’s only one company who could do search in a way that makes the words “Google it” obsolete. And just like with phones, Siri doesn’t need the most market share to be successful. Please Apple, we’re begging you.
I disagree – I use DuckDuckGo and find it useful.
I officially hate google enough to use bing. There’s little difference between the two search engines now…they both suck.
I do plan to migrate to Duckduckgo after ios8 comes out.
I want to know when you are home …
I want to know when you are away …
I want to know when you are alone with someone …
I want to know when you are watching family shows …
I want to know when you are alone and watching porn …
I want to know when you are in the shower …
I want to know when you are asleep …
I promise to keep all your secrets …
You don’t need privacy any more in your home, I want to know everything about you.
They’re lying to you when they say all this information can be used against you.
They’re lying to you when they say anybody can hack into your home network and see all this too.
I’ll take are of you …
Signed, Colossus
Heh, heh, heh. And I, as a District Attorney, have the power to get that data from Google any time I want as evidence in any suspected crime.
That’s a great reference. I love it!
The world needs to wake up to this big time.
I’m amazed there was only 2 protestor incidents at googles’ cool aid fest yesterday.
What is even totally staggering to me is that very few people are worrying about where this is all going. And to me it’s all too a viols where it’s heading.
If you haven’t read 1984 by George Orwell I think you’d better.
Once you read the book you’ll see what I mean.
I agree completely with you.
Americans are worried about the NSA. I am much more concerned about Google. They are the NSA on steroids and actually blatant about it and brag about it. Google is dangerous. When a company’s motto is ” Do no Evil”, trust me, they are Evil. It;s like countries that they are the “Democratic Republic of so and so” are never democratic.
I despise what Google stands for and their business model where the customer is their product. They are parasites to society and Americans give them free reign until it will be too late
Creepy.
Looking back over what Apple execs said during the WWDC and what was said by Google execs yesterday there appears to be a large, fundamental divide between the two philosophies.
Apple is proposing to make it simpler for the *user* to take advantage of all the user’s information across all of the user’s systems.
Google is proposing to make it simpler for *Google* to take advantage of all the user’s information (and movements) across all of the user’s systems.
Given the recent announcements by Nest and Google about Nest now openly sharing with Google previously private information gleaned by Nest hardware in your home and the acquisition of a camera company by Nest (with Google money) Google really is moving toward knowing everything you do in your home (if you use Google infested equipment).
Google infested equipment.
Digital Cockroaches.
Like I said before. People are really getting “STUPIDER”. No wonder everyone got excited when the new Dumber Dumber whatever trailer came out…They can all relate to them. LOL
re “getting stupider” — I don’t think so. Compared to when? It’s not that long ago that the vast majority of the population were barely literate serfs.
More recently, and still in effect to some degree, “Oh, smoking your death sticks will make me look cool. All right, then.”
Then you have the small-minded bigotry of SO many people – “We should be prejudiced against these other citizens of our country because their skin is a different color. OK.”
So many examples. Most people have always been very stupid, operating on a set of shallow, unthinking, un-examined prejudices.
Apple needs to tout user privacy as a feature – LOUDLY.
Unless they’re also in cahoots with Nobama’s snoops….
Apple have been, but you’ve got your head shoved too far up your ass to be able to see or hear it.
Who’s watching
Tell me who’s watching
Who’s watching me
I’m just an average man with an average life
I work from 9 to 5, hey hell, I pay the price
All I want is to be left alone, in my average home
But why do I always feel
Like I’m in the Twilight Zone? and…
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
And I have no privacy, whoa-oa-oa
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
Tell me, is it just a dream
When I come home at night
I bang the door real tight
People call me on the phone I’m trying to avoid
Or can the people on TV see me, or am I just paranoid?
When I’m in the shower, I’m afraid to wash my hair
Cause I might open my eyes and find someone standing there!
People say I’m crazy, just a little touched
But maybe showers remind me of “Psycho” too much
That’s why…
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
And I have no privacy, whoa-oa-oa
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
Who’s playing tricks on me?
Who’s watching me
I don’t know anymore!
Are the neighbours watching me?
Who’s watching
Well is the mailman watching me?
Tell me who’s watching
And I don’t feel safe anymore, oh what a mess
I wonder who’s watching me now
Who?
The IRS?!
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
And I have no privacy, whoa-oa-oa
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
Tell me is it just a dream
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
And I have no privacy, whoa-oa-oa (heee hee he)
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
Who’s playing tricks on me?
Who’s watching me?
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
Oooh, whoa-oa-oa
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
Tell me, can it be? (heee hee he)
Who’s watching me?
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
Whoa-oa-oa
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
Who’s playing tricks on me?
Who’s watching me?
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
Can I have my privacy
Whoa-oa-oa
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
Who’s playing tricks on me?
I can’t understand how these companies can get away with saying stuff like that. If Joe, private citizen said that, he’d be hauled away like a pedophile.
Yup, not creepy, totally safe. Honest!
Android is also on a lot of exercise equipment, and it is a nightmare to work with. Very slow and very unstable.