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Tag: Our Lady of Perpetual Beta

Why is Google so bad at innovation? 44 dead products and counting…

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 4:28 pmWednesday, December 5, 201824 Comments

The failure rate is even higher if you count the Google X moonshot projects…

Google gives up on tablets: Android P marks an end to its efforts to take on Apple’s iPad

Friday, March 9, 2018 11:27 am13 Comments

Google appears ready to give up on tablets entirely…

Gizmodo: Google’s Pixel Buds suck

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 5:00 pmTuesday, November 14, 201714 Comments

There was always something off about the Pixel Buds…

Our Lady of Transitory Endeavor strikes again: Google kills Chromebook Pixel laptop

Wednesday, March 1, 2017 3:59 pmWednesday, March 1, 201722 Comments

In a small meeting with journalists at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today…

Twitter moves closer to sale, suitors said to include Google and Salesforce

Friday, September 23, 2016 10:21 amFriday, September 23, 201610 Comments

Twitter has received expressions of interest from several technology or media companies…

Google launches Apple FaceTime killer ‘Duo’

Tuesday, August 16, 2016 10:31 amTuesday, August 16, 201623 Comments

Google and Apple have battled each other for years for primacy over mobile users…

Google plans to release its own smartphone and it will fail

Thursday, July 7, 2016 6:01 pmThursday, July 7, 201613 Comments

Google has quite a few reasons to design its own smartphone and have better control over its software, services, and users…

Alphabet’s new empire is crumbling

Thursday, July 7, 2016 1:26 pmThursday, July 7, 201615 Comments

For years we’ve been treated to a few common memes from high ranking members…

Me-too Google to follow Apple, move from 70/30 split to 85/15 for subscriptions

Wednesday, June 8, 2016 8:13 pm19 Comments

On Wednesday, Apple detailed major shake-ups coming to its powerful app store…

Google’s Eric Schmidt reveals his Apple iPhone

Tuesday, May 24, 2016 4:47 pmTuesday, May 24, 201610 Comments

Schmidt, chief executive for Alphabet and former Google boss, revealed he had an Apple iPhone…

Alphabet shuts down Google Glass social media accounts

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 11:25 amThursday, January 28, 20166 Comments

Alphabet Inc’s Google shut down several social media accounts linked to the Glass gadget, ending its push…

Google’s flaky Nest thermostat shakes users’ trust in the Internet of Things

Tuesday, January 19, 2016 3:28 pmTuesday, January 19, 201620 Comments

The latest Nest thermostat snafu points a potentially larger problem of bringing formerly unconnected things online…

Facebook employees forced by management to drop their preferred iPhones for Android phones

Monday, November 2, 2015 2:32 pmMonday, November 2, 201546 Comments

Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, is forcing an untold number of Facebook employees…

Porsche chooses Apple Car Play over Android Auto because of Google’s rampant data collection demands

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:58 amTuesday, October 6, 201527 Comments

So much for “Do No Evil.” As part of the agreement an automaker would have to enter with Google, certain pieces of data must be collected and mailed back to Alphabet Inc…

Pornhub reveals iOS vs. Android porn preferences

Monday, October 5, 2015 3:59 pmMonday, October 5, 201517 Comments

September means the beginning of sweater weather, the return of Pumpkin Spice Lattes and the launch of a new iPhone…

Apple’s iPhone juggernaut continues with record-breaking sales while Android peddlers fight over scraps

Monday, September 28, 2015 1:28 pm12 Comments

As a whole, Android sells far more devices. The vast majority of those devices are typically…

Samsung phones are for old people

Saturday, August 22, 2015 10:27 amSaturday, August 22, 201565 Comments

Samsung has ploughed billions into promoting its high-end phones…

Apple iPhone has huge advantage over Android phones as carriers nix subsidies

Thursday, August 13, 2015 4:27 pmThursday, August 13, 201512 Comments

Apple’s iPhones tend to attract users in higher income brackets…

Apple Music evinces Apple’s future – and its stark contrast to Google and Microsoft

Monday, July 6, 2015 11:30 amMonday, July 6, 20156 Comments

Just in its first few days, the launch of Apple Music…

Google Glass chief leaves position

Friday, June 5, 2015 8:25 amFriday, June 5, 201526 Comments

Chris O’Neill, the business chief for Google Glass, is leaving the position…

Google’s annual me-too event: More good news for Apple

Friday, May 29, 2015 9:39 amFriday, May 29, 201515 Comments

Google’s IO developer conference kicked off May 28…

Google demos Apple Pay wannabe, ‘Android Pay’

Thursday, May 28, 2015 4:53 pmThursday, May 28, 201532 Comments

Google Inc. revised its mobile-payment service Thursday with new partners…

Google’s self-driving cars hit the road this summer

Friday, May 15, 2015 3:58 pmFriday, May 15, 201544 Comments

The latest version of Google’s self-driving car…

Tim Bajarin: Apple Watch vs. the Google Glass debacle

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 9:56 amFriday, June 5, 201524 Comments

Apparently, Google found out the hard way how tech products get adopted….

Why Google is the new evil empire

Monday, April 20, 2015 3:55 pmTuesday, April 21, 201517 Comments

Don’t let the whimsical multicolored logo and ‘don’t be evil’ mantra fool you…

Dvorak: Google has gone certifiably nuts

Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:27 am34 Comments

Not focusing on what it does best, or at least makes money, has Google spreading itself thin…

iOS 8 adoption rate hits 72% as Android ‘Lollipop’ distribution reaches 1.6%

Tuesday, February 3, 2015 5:40 pm15 Comments

Apple’s newest operating system, iOS 8, is installed on 72 percent of iOS devices…

Google Glass is no more, if it ever was

Thursday, January 15, 2015 1:29 pm40 Comments

Google Glass is dead. Another mental-masturbatory marketing ploy bites the dust…

Google and the self-driving delusion

Thursday, January 8, 2015 9:32 amThursday, January 8, 201536 Comments

Google’s driverless car are an elaborate charade; a branding exercise, a ticket to free media, a way to sell software…

Google Glass prospects dim as developers abandon the dorktastic device

Monday, November 17, 2014 4:57 pmMonday, November 17, 201419 Comments

Many developers and early Google Glass users are losing interest…

Google barge heads for the scrap yard

Friday, August 1, 2014 3:44 pmFriday, August 1, 201437 Comments

The so-called Google barge, once envisioned as a floating showroom for Google Glass…

Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin: Apple is doing too few products

Monday, July 7, 2014 5:01 pmMonday, July 7, 201443 Comments

In a ‘fireside chat’ with leading venture capitalist…

Fortune’s 27 companies that changed the world: Apple #16, Google #10

Wednesday, June 11, 2014 3:51 pmWednesday, June 11, 201433 Comments

Business is the instrument that mankind has settled on to propagate change…

Google about to toss Google+ atop its mountain of failed ideas?

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:32 pmWednesday, April 30, 201415 Comments

The abrupt departure of Google+ creator Vic Gundotra from the beleaguered social network…

Why Google is tech investor’s darling, not Apple

Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:22 pmWednesday, February 12, 201443 Comments

Apple found legs last week, but it’s Google that…

Tony Fadell and Nest team to become Google’s core hardware group

Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:00 pmThursday, January 30, 201431 Comments

Google has big plans for the team behind the connected device company…

Google to shutter Flock, Bump apps and delete all data

Thursday, January 2, 2014 9:59 am9 Comments

Just three months after being acquired by Google…

Latest self-replicating Android Trojan looks and acts just like Windows malware

Friday, June 7, 2013 5:31 pmFriday, June 7, 201323 Comments

The Android Trojan can copy itself and other malicious applications to other devices located nearby…

Apple’s iRadio is still mired in licensing talks and may not be ready for WWDC, sources say

Friday, May 17, 2013 5:01 pmFriday, May 17, 201311 Comments

Google’s long-rumored Play Music All Access service is already out the door…

Google to make digital eyeglasses in the U.S. with Foxconn, sources say

Thursday, March 28, 2013 1:08 pm15 Comments

Google Inc. plans to make digital eyeglasses in the U.S. with Foxconn…

If Apple had unveiled Google Glasses…

Monday, February 25, 2013 12:00 pmMonday, February 25, 201335 Comments

Yep, the company that revolutionized the way we listen to music…

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